Trafic

Trafic
Original French release poster
Directed byJacques Tati
Written byJacques Tati
Jacques Lagrange
Bert Haanstra
Produced byRobert Dorfmann
StarringJacques Tati
Tony Knepper
Franco Ressel
Mario Zanuelli
Maria Kimberly
CinematographyEduard van der Enden
Marcel Weiss
Edited byJacques Tati
Maurice Laumain
Sophie Tatischeff
Music byCharles Dumont
Production
companies
Les Films Corona
Les Films Gibé
Selenia Cinematografica
Distributed byVariety Distribution
Release date
  • 16 April 1971 (1971-04-16) (France)
Running time
96 minutes[1]
CountriesItaly
France
LanguagesFrench
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.

  1. ^ "TRAFIC (U)". British Board of Film Classification. 8 November 1971. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  2. ^ Romney, Jonathan (14 July 2008). "Trafic: Watching the Wheels". Criterion Collection. Retrieved 11 January 2012.