Trafic is a shorter and much more conventional Tati film than Playtime. Here, Tati, his sancho panza, and a pushy American PR girl, drive their new Camper Car from Paris to the Automobile Show in Amsterdam. Needless to say, everything goes wrong. Like other Tati films, the humor is subtle and low key. I think an American director would've taken the scenes and made them more madcap and absurd.
Funniest scene: A filling station, instead of giving out green stamps, gives out big plaster busts of famous personages!
Summary: Tati made this at age 64, and who is incredibly funny at 64? I'd place it 5th amongst Tati's films, I've seen after Mr. Hulot's Holday, Playtime, Jour de fête, and Mon Oncle. But its genial fun and quite charming.
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