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

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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