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Playtime review " a bubblegum take on Monsieur Hulot by Clare Brennan

Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonFive actors play more than 100 roles as Tati's 60s satire is transformed into a meet-cute comedy of quick-change physical comedy The late, great Observer film critic Philip French, writing in 2009, described Jacques Tati's 1967 film Playtime as a "satire on soulless, conformist modernity". Modern life's mechanical rigidity, all straight lines and sharp edges, is gradually subverted by…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:43AM on September 11, 2022

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