The Second Sunderland Film Festival - 21st

the second sunderland film festival - january 2005

Playtime
Showing Friday 21st January, 1.15pm
(archive 1972) France 126mins choice of Alistair Robinson (local critic)
(print source BFI)

This is Tati with a surreal edge, as M Hulot wanders around a shiny, modernistic, sharply angled Paris. Certainly the world looks a harsher place than the rural and seaside idylls of his earlier films, but the humour is still that great mix of laugh-out-loud and inner smile, with human foibles still at its centre.
Director: Jacques Tati
Starring: Jacques Tati

“The jewel of Tati’s career, a hallucinatory comic vision on the verge of abstraction” Sheila Johnston, Time Out
“Recreates a supposedly perfect metropolis, then watches as it comes undone by man’s inherent folly” Josh Larsen, Chicago Sun

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Come back regularly for news of SFF3 as it begins to transpire.

For full listings of the times and dates each film was shown check out the timetable.

For any furthur information about SFF2:

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This year saw the introduction of a new short-film competition designed to unleash the movie-making potential of people in and around the Sunderland area - and far, far beyond: selected entries were shown at Kino Vivaldi.

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