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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Tati’s most expansive choreography of modern life: dialogue recedes behind precisely staged crowds, architecture, machines, and visual gags, with Hulot gently adrift in an immaculate, impersonal city.
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Why this pick
Its comic attention to gadgetry, sterile design, and human improvisation makes it a warmer, more domestic companion to Trafic’s fascination with systems that thwart everyday movement.
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Why this pick
A leisurely, largely visual chain of social mishaps, built from observant sound design and background action rather than plot mechanics—the Hulot sensibility in its most relaxed form.
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Why this pick
Tati turns a circus performance into an affectionate mosaic of spectators, performers, and small visual surprises, retaining the gentle pacing and peripheral-detail comedy that animate Trafic.
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Why this pick
A deadpan French farce where an ordinary man is swept through absurd institutional confusion; its unhurried comic escalation and clean visual timing echo Trafic’s calm amid bureaucratic chaos.
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01 / THE STORY
In ''Trafic'', Hulot is a bumbling automobile designer who works for Altra, a Paris auto plant. Along with a truck driver and Maria, a publicity agent, he takes a new camper-car of his design to an auto show in Amsterdam. On the way there, they encounter various obstacles: getting impounded by Netherlands customs guards, a car accident (meticulously choreographed by the filmmakers), and an inefficient mechanic. In the film, “Tati leaves no element of the auto scene unexplored, whether it is the after-battle recovery moments of a traffic-circle chain-reaction accident, whether it a study of drivers in repose or garage-attendants in slow-motion, the gas-station give-away (where the busts of historical figures seem to find their appropriate owners) or the police station bureaucracy.”
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Monsieur Hulot
