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Trafic: The Criterion Collection

DVD - APPROX. 97 MINS. - 1971 - US Rating: NR

Main feature:

Release Jul 15, 2008
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio French: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1971
Genre Comedy

Special features:

  • Disc One:
  • - New, restored high-definition digital transfer
  • - Interview from 1971 with the cast of "Trafic," from the French television program "Le journal du cinema"
  • - "The Comedy of Jacques Tati", a 1973 episode of the French television program "Morceaux de bravoure"
  • - Theatrical trailer
  • - New and improved English subtitle translation
  • Disc Two:
  • - "In the Footsteps of M. Hulot" (1989), a two-part documentary by Sophie Tatischeff tracing the evolution of Tati's beloved alter ego
  • - PLUS: A new essay by film critic Jonathan Romney

Synopsis:

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 in all sorts of 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.

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
Jacques TatiMaria KimberlyTony KnepperMarcel Franval"Trafic: The Criterion Collection"
Written byJacques Tatiproduced byRobert Dorfmann
directed byJacques Tati
Production Year: 1971

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