One of the all-time comedy classics, Rene Clair's A Nous la Liberte tells the story of Emile, an escaped convict who becomes a wealthy industrialist. Unfortunately, his past returns to upset his carefully laid plans. Featuring lighthearted wit, tremendous visual innovation, and masterful manipulation of sound, A Nous la Liberte is both a potent indictment of mechanized modern society and an uproarious comic delight. Lawsuit was pressed against Chaplin for plagiarizing A Nous la Liberte in making of Modern Times. Be it or not, A Nous la Liberte shares the same criticism against the mechanical world.

法式幽默輕巧得連大城市的疏離感都可化成會心微笑，不必時時剎有介事緊皺眉頭。巴黎現代化的速度一日千里，由積葵大地化身的于洛先生，今回去到巴黎也要蕩失路，看著他在高科技的迷宮中兜兜轉轉，驚險諧趣得來也發人深省。意象清晰前衛而有效，片中預示簡約主義的佈景、冷漠的人際關係以至樣板化的都市生活，真實地反映廿一世紀現代生活真像。積葵大地深得差利的精髓，以身體語言製造喜劇效果，同時也精於設計場面調度。片中的時裝和佈景設計，現己成為一代潮人的無字天書，連agnes b.都愛煞的電影，總有它的魅力。

Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture that is full of latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner. Being the most expensive film in French history at that time, Playtime is Tati's dream, a "Tativille", an enormous set that reproduced an airline terminal, city streets, high-rise buildings, offices and a traffic circle. It is considered as one of the masterpieces that deals with urban angst and alienation, vividly shows us how vulnerable we can be in face of technology.