Trafic by Jacques Tati

AFG presents at the Club (AKUMB, 40 Tumanyan Str.)
THE FRENCH COMEDY VISIONARY - THE COMPLETE JACQUES TATI

Tuesday, December 27, 2015 at 20:00
TRAFIC
1971, France, 97 min, Comedy, BR
Director: Jacques Tati
Stars: Jacques Tati, Marcel Fraval, Honoré Bostel
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 “camping car” 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.

* Films are screened in original language with English subtitles.
* BR Box Set Donated to the program by Khachatur Aloyan (USA)