Traffic (1971)
- Original title
- Trafic
- Directed by
- Jacques Tati
- Genre
- comedy film, social comedy film
- Country
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Rated
- G
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 217 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Monsieur Hulot travels from Paris to Amsterdam for an auto show. The journey turns chaotic due to traffic jams and modern road mishaps.
wittylightheartedobservationalsatiricalleisurelyabsurdistcharmingwhimsical
What happens
Trafic (Traffic) is a 1971 comedy film directed by Jacques Tati. Trafic was the last film to feature Tati's famous character of Monsieur Hulot, and followed the vein of earlier Tati films that lampooned modern society. Tati's use of the word "trafic" instead of the usual French word for car traffic (la circulation) may derive from a desire to use the same franglais he used when he called his previous film Playtime, and the primary meaning of trafic is "exchange of goods", rather than "traffic" per se. The word "Trafic" was subsequently used for a light utility vehicle model manufactured by Renault starting in 1981. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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