PLAYTIME – TATIS HERRLICHE ZEITEN

Film stories: Dreams of rooms - living space in movies

PLAYTIME - TATI'S GLORIOUS TIMES

F/I 1967, 124', DCP, OmU - D: Jacques Tati

A group of American tourists arrive in a futuristic-looking Paris and marvel at the modern city of glass and concrete. At the same time, Monsieur Hulot tries to find a Monsieur Giffard, but gets lost in the sterile and uniform-looking buildings. The storylines intersect in a newly opened restaurant, whose ultra-fashionable façade increasingly crumbles over the course of the evening. The backdrop town built especially for the film shines in pastel blue-grey, in which functional-looking but non-functional things are sold and two old-fashioned people come together in shared wonder and amazement.

Introduction: Daniel Kothenschulte (film critic and curator)

In cooperation with the Institut français Cologne

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