Park Your Cinema: Playtime (1967) - Εικόνα

The future and the unknown will never cease to amaze us. They have inspired the most vibrant minds of science fiction like never before. Cinema constantly dreams of what is out there and shows us the road that leads to the wildest adventures, the most unpredictable stories. It unlocks the magic, soothes our fears and takes us to unlikely destinations in time and space.

This summer, Park your Cinema is showing films selected by the Thessaloniki Film Festival that see the future as an exciting ride into the unknown: iconic films of the 80s and 90s (Back to the Future, War Games, The Men with the Blacks, Day of the Groundhog, The Martians Attack, Big, Jurassic Park, The Iron Giant), but also more recent ones (After the Next Day, Wall-E, Interstellar, Microcosm, Ready Player One).

As, after all, we know, the most beautiful adventures are not always the safest - this is what give them their special charm. In the end, however, they assure us that everything will be fine.

This is how we want to look at tomorrow and this is how we will meet it cinematically at the Great Lawn of the Stavros Niarchos Park: with the impatience of a child thirsty for future adventures.

Playtime
France-Italy, 1967

Director: Jacques Tati
Scriptwriters: Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange, Art Buchwald
Starring: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek

A journey through a futuristic Paris, constructed of straight lines, modernist glass and steel high-rise buildings, multilane avenues, and cold, artificial interiors. Τwo characters keep bumping into each other in the course of a day: Barbara, a young American tourist visiting Paris with a group composed primarily of middle-aged American women, and Monsieur Hulot, a befuddled Frenchman lost in the new modernity of Paris.

Friday 28/07 | 21.00
Great Lawn 

Free entrance 

* It is recommended that guests be equipped with insect repellant, as well as a mat or a blanket to lay on the lawn.

Park your cinema and Park your cinema Kids series are free and open to all, thanks to an exclusive grant by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. 

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