CharlesDumont &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:CharlesDumont @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:53:57 +0200 Trafic [Traffic] (Jacques Tati, 1971) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/trafic-1971 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Trafic [Traffic] (Jacques Tati, 1971)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="occasion" National Barbecue Day/div div class="img" Trafic (1971)/div div class="caption" A man prepares a steak on his nifty Renault 4 Altra grill (there's a pun), observed by M. Hulot and a perplexed Dutch customs officer. In the background a sign in Dutch that requests to refrain from smoking. DPs: Eduard van der Enden & Marcel Weiss./div div class="txt" Monsieur Hulot – who in his final appearance happens to be an automobile designer – travels to a car show in Amsterdam to demonstrate his latest creation, a camper van par excellence. The vehicle of course accommodates the latest gadgets, such as a collapsible grill. "Where are you going, Mr. Hulot?" ### \ ##### However regarded as a lesser #Tati, Trafic, is another display of lovingly choreographed insanity, notably a #CarCrash that makes me wonder if this was Tati's attempt to transpose Godard's Week-end (1967) into a pleasant, pre-May 68 France./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalBarbecueDay #JacquesTati #CharlesDumont #EduardVanDerEnden #MarcelWeiss #MonsieurHulot #comedy #cars #food #barbecue #France #Italy #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Trafic [Traffic] (Jacques Tati, 1971)

May

16

National Barbecue Day

Trafic (1971)

A man prepares a steak on his nifty Renault 4 Altra grill (there's a pun), observed by M. Hulot and a perplexed Dutch customs officer. In the background a sign in Dutch that requests to refrain from smoking. DPs: Eduard van der Enden & Marcel Weiss.

Monsieur Hulot – who in his final appearance happens to be an automobile designer – travels to a car show in Amsterdam to demonstrate his latest creation, a camper van par excellence. The vehicle of course accommodates the latest gadgets, such as a collapsible grill.

“Where are you going, Mr. Hulot?”

However regarded as a lesser #Tati, Trafic, is another display of lovingly choreographed insanity, notably a #CarCrash that makes me wonder if this was Tati's attempt to transpose Godard's Week-end (1967) into a pleasant, pre-May 68 France.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalBarbecueDay #JacquesTati #CharlesDumont #EduardVanDerEnden #MarcelWeiss #MonsieurHulot #comedy #cars #food #barbecue #France #Italy #1970s ★★★½

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