Trafic

(1971)

★ 7.1 IMDb · 223 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1971

Runtime: 96 мин

Country: France, Italy

Director: Jacques Tati

Cast: Jacques Tati, Tony Knepper, Maria Kimberly, Marcel Fraval, Honoré Bostel, François Maisongrosse, Marco Zuanelli, Franco Ressel

Plot

Mr. Hulot is the head designer of the Altra Automotive Co. His latest invention is a newfangled camper car loaded with outrageous extra features. Along with the company's manager and publicity model, Hulot sets out from Paris with the intention of debuting the car at the annual auto show in Amsterdam. The going isn't easy, however, and the group encounters an increasingly bizarre series of hurdles and setbacks en route.

Altra, a Paris-based vehicle manufacturer, is unveiling its new camper van at the International Auto Show in Amsterdam. Accompanying Marcel the driver of the truck transporting the camper van from Paris to Amsterdam is M. Hulot, the designer, and in her own yellow roadster the American PR agent hired for the event, Maria Kimberly. The film is a series of sight gags, at the factory before everyone leaves for Amsterdam, at the auto show itself and its setup, and mostly on the road as a largely silent or inaudible Hulot, Maria and Marcel get into one mishap after another, thus it never a guarantee that the trio or the camper van will make it to the show on time or intact. Most of the sight gags with the latter group focus on items related to vehicles, their drivers, and/or traffic.