Monsieur Hulot has a job interview - but before he can worry about impressing his future employer, he'll need to find them first. Landing in a reimagined modernist Paris, he has to navigate endless corridors, slippery floors, sinking chairs, sliding doors and misleading reflections in a high-tech corporate labyrinth where organised chaos reigns and Hulot sticks out as a misaligned cog in the machinery of modern life.

Bumping into old war comrades and a cute American tourist along the way, Hulot leaves the office block behind and finds himself guest of honour at the opening of Paris' newest (and worst) restaurant - an eatery so fresh the builders haven't even left yet!

Tati’s boldest and most ambitious work, with barely any dialogue and no central plot, PlayTime is a dazzling audiovisual experience: a comedy of details and a visionary portrait of a world being designed out of existence.

To kick off the summer, we’re screening three of Jacques Tati’s most iconic films in celebration of one of cinema’s great comic auteurs.

With his background in mime and music hall, Tati elevated physical comedy to an art form. Across these films, his pipe-smoking, umbrella-toting alter ego Monsieur Hulot bumbles his way through postwar France, awkwardly navigating seaside resorts, gadget-filled kitchens, and the glass-and-steel labyrinths of modern life. But these aren’t just slapstick romps — they’re precise, painterly works of cinematic architecture, full of quiet satire and densely choreographed visual gags.

“When you watch his films, you realise how much he know about – and loved – human nature, and it can only be an inspiration to do the same.” David Lynch