Chichester Cinema at New Park
TRAFIC
The 18th Chichester International Film festival
Director Retrospective: Jacques Tati (1907-1982)
Please note that the originally programmed Wednesday 2nd Sep 18.00 screening has moved to Tuesday 1st Sep 14.00.
Mr. Hulot is a designer for a Paris auto company, and he has developed a camping vehicle like no other. Trafic is the story of the delivery of his camper from Paris to an international auto show in Amsterdam.
It's a long journey filled with misunderstandings, accidents and crashes, a PR executive with an endless number of dress changes, police, windshield wipers and a lot of cars.
Tati was 64 now, and he looks it. The gentle, innocent mime who meets unexpected personal situations at a small seaside hotel or tries to help his young nephew has been replaced by a well-meaning older gentleman we more often observe than root for.
By the time Tati made Trafic, four years after Playtime, he had lost ownership of his life's work, his films, and most of his money. However Jacques Tati's movies are classics to be treasured, and this sometimes melancholic comedy has sequences of brilliant humour to be savoured and admired.
France · 1971 · Jacques Tati · 97min
