Trafic | |
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Directed by | Jacques Tati |
Written by | Jacques Tati Jacques Lagrange Bert Haanstra |
Produced by | Robert Dorfmann |
Starring | Jacques Tati Tony Knepper Franco Ressel Mario Zanuelli Maria Kimberly |
Cinematography | Eduard van der Enden Marcel Weiss |
Edited by | Jacques Tati Maurice Laumain Sophie Tatischeff |
Music by | Charles Dumont |
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Distributed by | Variety Distribution |
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Running time | 96 minutes[1] |
Countries | Italy France |
Languages | French Dutch English |
Trafic (Traffic) is a 1971 Italian-French 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.[2] The word "Trafic" was subsequently used for a light utility vehicle model manufactured by Renault starting in 1981.