Francophone Studies Presents: Jacques Tatis PLAYTIME

Director: Jacques Tati France

Language: French

Running Time: 124

Jacques Tatis 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.

-Jacques Tatis 1967 masterpiece still holds up as a feast of subtle sight gags, playful noise and, above all, visual wonders.- a?" Dave Calhoun, Time Out

-Tatia?Ts despair is modulated by a sense of wonder.- a?" Richard Brody, New Yorker