Plot Summary
In Jacques Tati’s Trafic, the bumbling Monsieur Hulot, kitted out as always with tan raincoat, beaten brown hat, and umbrella, takes to Paris’s highways and byways. In this, his final outing, Hulot is employed as an auto company’s director of design, and accompanies his new product (a camper outfitted with absurd gadgetry) to an auto show in Amsterdam. Naturally, the road there is paved with modern-age mishaps. This late-career delight is a masterful demonstration of the comic genius’s expert timing and sidesplitting knack for visual gags, and a bemused last look at technology run amok.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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100%- Reviews Counted: 15
- Fresh: 15
- Rotten: 0
- Average Rating: 8.0/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.
Fresh: Everyone is incapable of dealing with the modern world, but Mr. Hulot is even worse off than the rest of us.
Fresh: A masterpiece in its own right -- not only for the sharp picture of the frenetic and gimmick-crazy civilization that worships cars, but also for many remarkable formal qualities.
Fresh: ...in the breezy vapor that amounts to the movie's plot, it's not the destination that counts, but the leisurely, amiably aimless travel you take getting there.
- Genre: Comedy
- Expected Release: Oct 07, 2014
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