Trafic

Trafic
Original French release poster
Directed by	Jacques Tati
Written by	Jacques Tati Jacques Lagrange Bert Haanstra
Produced by	Robert Dorfmann
Starring	Jacques Tati Tony Knepper Franco Ressel Mario Zanuelli Maria Kimberly
Cinematography	Eduard van der Enden Marcel Weiss
Edited by	Jacques Tati Maurice Laumain Sophie Tatischeff
Music by	Charles Dumont
Production companies	Les Films Corona Les Films Gibé Selenia Cinematografica
Distributed by	Variety Distribution
Release date	16 April 1971 (1971-04-16) (France)
Running time	96 minutes[1]
Countries	Italy France
Languages	French Dutch English

Trafic (Traffic) is a 1971 Italian-French comedy film directed by Jacques Tati. Trafic was the last film to feature Tati's famous character of Monsieur Hulot, and followed the vein of earlier Tati films that lampooned modern society.

Tati's use of the word "trafic" instead of the usual French word for car traffic (la circulation) may derive from a desire to use the same franglais he used when he called his previous film Playtime, and the primary meaning of trafic is "exchange of goods", rather than "traffic" per se.^[2] The word "Trafic" was subsequently used for a light utility vehicle model manufactured by Renault starting in 1981.