| Sunday 15 February 15.00
Playtime
(Jacques Tati, France 1967, 123’)
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Playtime |
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'Playtime is not merely set in a city, it itself
is a city, a proliferation of perspectives, a multifarious mesh of signs,
a semiotic Utopia. As Hulot wanders through the massive metropolis especially
constructed for the film, the spectator cannot hope to comprehend its complete
topography on a single viewing and ends by browsing rather than reading
the imagery. In this recently restored rarity of rarities, an avant-garde,
near-abstract comedy, the screen is transformed into a vast playground.'
(Gilbert Adair).
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£3.50 (£2 concessions)
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