WATCH PARTY: Playtime (1967) directed by Jacques Tati @ Mary Pretlow Library
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Everything I'm reading says this is an excellent musical with some of the best choreography and "blocking" you'll ever see. We'll be in the big room, Meeting Room 2, to the right of the entrance.
RUNTIME: 123 minutes
RATED: Unrated (lighthearted, appropriate for all ages per AI)
SYNOPSIS (via Criterion): Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology reached their apotheosis with PlayTime. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrust the lovably old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a baffling modern world, this time Paris. With every inch of its superwide frame crammed with hilarity and inventiveness, PlayTime is a lasting record of a modern era tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion.
BLURBS:
"For my money Playtime is the greatest film ever made." - David Jenkins, Little White Lies
"My all-time favorite movie, this 1967 French comedy by actor-director Jacques Tati almost certainly has the most intricately designed mise en scene in all of cinema." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
"Playtime is a peculiar, mysterious, magical film." - Roger Ebert