PlayTime: Members Only
- Sun, May 25
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Jacques Tati Run Time: 124 min. Release Year: 1967 Language: French
Starring: Barbara Dennek, France Delahalle, France Rumilly, Jacques Tati, Rita Maiden
Frida Cinema members are invited to step into the whimsical, hyper-detailed world of Jacques Tati’s PlayTime–A visual masterpiece of modernist comedy. Released in 1967, it’s a grand orchestration of architecture, sound, movement, and human behavior, all choreographed to perfection in Tati’s signature style.
Set in a gleaming, glass-and-steel version of Paris that reflects the anxieties and absurdities of modern life, PlayTime follows the bumbling Monsieur Hulot as he navigates a maze of bureaucratic buildings, gadget-obsessed offices, and a chaotic new restaurant opening. But plot is secondary here—Tati’s genius lies in what happens in the margins. The background becomes the foreground, and every frame is packed with layered gags and visual poetry.
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