Trafic (1971)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: Eastmancolor 96m
Director: Jacques Tati
Cast: Jacques Tati, Maria Kimberly, Tony Knepper
Synopsis:
The designer of a gadget-ridden camper van sets out with his invention for the annual motor show in Holland, escorted by his attractive and roadhogging PR assistant. Their journey is beset with mishaps.
Review:
Tati's jaundiced view of modern technology produced this prescient critique of automobile travel whose centrepiece is a car which privileges domestic bliss over mechanical prowess, and the fatal delays in the film's journey are due largely to uncharacteristic samaritanism on the part of the motorist Hulot. In other words, civilized values emerge in spite of, not because of, the motor car and sequences such as the factory-set titles, and nose-picking and yawning drivers montages, adumbrate a mounting insanity which culminates in the final pullback to reveal a massive log jam of vehicles to echo the factory parking lot at the opening.
Country: IT/FR
Technical: Eastmancolor 96m
Director: Jacques Tati
Cast: Jacques Tati, Maria Kimberly, Tony Knepper
Synopsis:
The designer of a gadget-ridden camper van sets out with his invention for the annual motor show in Holland, escorted by his attractive and roadhogging PR assistant. Their journey is beset with mishaps.
Review:
Tati's jaundiced view of modern technology produced this prescient critique of automobile travel whose centrepiece is a car which privileges domestic bliss over mechanical prowess, and the fatal delays in the film's journey are due largely to uncharacteristic samaritanism on the part of the motorist Hulot. In other words, civilized values emerge in spite of, not because of, the motor car and sequences such as the factory-set titles, and nose-picking and yawning drivers montages, adumbrate a mounting insanity which culminates in the final pullback to reveal a massive log jam of vehicles to echo the factory parking lot at the opening.
Country: IT/FR
Technical: Eastmancolor 96m
Director: Jacques Tati
Cast: Jacques Tati, Maria Kimberly, Tony Knepper
Synopsis:
The designer of a gadget-ridden camper van sets out with his invention for the annual motor show in Holland, escorted by his attractive and roadhogging PR assistant. Their journey is beset with mishaps.
Review:
Tati's jaundiced view of modern technology produced this prescient critique of automobile travel whose centrepiece is a car which privileges domestic bliss over mechanical prowess, and the fatal delays in the film's journey are due largely to uncharacteristic samaritanism on the part of the motorist Hulot. In other words, civilized values emerge in spite of, not because of, the motor car and sequences such as the factory-set titles, and nose-picking and yawning drivers montages, adumbrate a mounting insanity which culminates in the final pullback to reveal a massive log jam of vehicles to echo the factory parking lot at the opening.