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In August, Park Your Cinema at Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center presents five seminal films from different film schools and eras, which view life through the lens of satire.

Peter Sellers finds all the wrong ways to safeguard a legendary diamond, Monty Python mock all that our civilization stands for, Greta Garbo has a taste for the lush life of the capitalist West, Woody Allen leads a revolution in Latin America and Gene Kelly floats in the wake of the change caused by the introduction of sound in film. Marquee names, classic films and laughing out loud in the city’s most beautiful wide open space – the Stavros Niarchos Park Great Lawn.

Lying on the grass under the Attic sky. Can you think of a better way to go to the movies this summer?

Program curated by Elias Frangoulis 

*Visitors are advised to bring insect repellent and a mat, or other similar item for sitting on the ground.
 

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983)
 

The title says it all! All-British Monty Python team revisits the BBC television show modular format that made them famous, and dare to reply to many of humanity’s most pressing existential questions, cannibalizing the entire universe as they go. The role of religion, sexual orientation, capitalist greed, the onset of death and “The End of Film,” everything is ridiculed, translated into extreme surreal humor. Jury’s Special Grand Prix, Festival de Cannes 1983.

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