An MBC Premiere «DIGITAL» Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures Miami Theatrical DIGITAL Premiere!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 8:30pm
TATI! Trafic (Directed by Jacques Tati/1971/97 mins.)
With Jacques Tati, Marcel Fravel, Honoré Bastel, Françoise Maisongrosse
In Jacques Tati’s Trafic, the bumbling Monsieur Hulot, outfitted as always with tan raincoat, beaten brown hat, and umbrella, takes to Paris’s highways and byways. For this, his final outing, Hulot is employed as an auto company’s director of design, and accompanies his new vehicle (a camper tricked out with absurd gadgetry) to an auto show in Amsterdam. Naturally, the road is paved with modern-age mishaps. This late-career delight is a masterful demonstration of the comic genius’s expert timing and sidesplitting visual gags, and a bemused last look at technology run amok.
In French with English subtitles.
“The usual French term for traffic—meaning the movement of motor vehicles—is la circulation. The word trafic can be a synonym for it, but its primary meaning is traffic in the sense of commerce, the exchange of goods. Jacques Tati’s use of the word for his 1971 panorama of car culture is pointed: it is an example of the same ironic franglais he used in calling his previous film Playtime. Linguistic cosmopolitanism in the Babel-like world of commerce and culture is one of Trafic’s several satirical targets.”-Jonathan Romney Trafic: Watching the Wheels
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