Trafic
Trafic Traffic is a 1971 ItalianFrench comedy film directed by Jacques Tati. Trafic was the last film to feature Tatis famous character of Monsieur Hulot, and followed the vein of earlier Tati films that lampooned modern society.
In Trafic, Hulot is a bumbling automobile designer who works for Altra, a Paris auto plant. He, along with a truck driver and a publicity agent, Maria, takes a new campercar designed by Hulot to an auto show in Amsterdam. On the way there, they encounter various obstacles on the road. Some of the obstacles that Hulot and his companions encounter are getting impounded by Dutch customs guards, a car accident meticulously choreographed by the filmmakers, and an inefficient mechanic. In the film, Tati leaves no element of the auto scene unexplored, whether it is the afterbattle recovery moments of a trafficcircle chainreaction accident, whether it a study of drivers in repose or garageattendants in slowmotion, the gasstation giveaway where the busts of historical figures seem to find their appropriate owners or the police station bureaucracy.In 1972, an American reviewer wrote that Jacques Tatis Traffic is so nonblockbuster, in fact, that it is absolutely therapeutic for todays moviegoer, a velvetgloved healing hand from the past to remind us of childrens laughter and adults smiles of satisfaction at the comedy that had indeed evoked their laughter at first sight. Michel Chion has written that Trafic turns out to be as impure a patchwork as Play Time was pure and intransigent. Nonetheless, it is an endearing film for different reasons we are invited to a picaresque journey of a man who leaves Paris to go to Amsterdam for a car show, but arrives much too late to participate. ........
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