70mm Print! PLAYTIME, 1967, December 8, 2011

Thursday, December 8 – 7:30 PM
Co-presented by the French Film and TV office in Los Angeles, French Embassy: 70mm Print! PLAYTIME, 1967, Janus Films, 126 min. Another chance to see the fully restored Jacques Tati masterpiece PLAYTIME, which was originally conceived as a 70mm viewing experience, then lost for more than 30 years (there were only 35mm prints left of a cut version) and finally rescued by Tati's daughter, Sophie Tatischeff, and Jerome Deschamps. Monsieur Hulot must contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in a stylish maze of modern architecture filled with the latest gadgets. Caught in a tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner. The star of the film: the city built by Tati and called Tativille or Taticity. From surprise to surprise, it’s an exquisite and divine experience! François Truffaut, writing to Jacques Tati about PLAYTIME, said simply, "A film from another planet." [70mm]

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