Monorail Film Club: PLAYTIME (U)
Sunday 18th May at 3.40pm
Director Jacques Tati
Cast: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden
France 1967, 2h 4m (French, German and English with subtitles)
Playtime is a Tati masterpiece. Three years in production and dazzling looking, it shows off a futuristic Paris which some of its inhabitants, notably Monsieur Hulot (played by Tati), are struggling to come to terms with. Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, lost in the maze of modern architecture filled with the latest gadgets.
The film will be preceded by a short (12m) KH-4, a strange film about a Glasgow artist (played by a young Bill Forsyth) who uses the city as a source of inspiration.
The screening will be presented by Glasgow artist, Toby Paterson.