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Article: On the road to renewed relevance: Jacques Tati's Trafic.(Critical essay)
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- March 22, 2009
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Even among Tati-philes, it is classified, at best, a pleasant coda. But Jacques Tati's Trafic, back on the autoroute in the form of a stylish, 2 DVD set, finds itself again on the road to relevance, the product of a delirious political period of rising gas prices, environmental erosion, technological ubiquity, and insatiable consumerism--each a conspirator in the moral double-take being performed by our contemporary, car-crazed culture.
If Les Vacances de Mr. Hulot cleverly demonstrated that man's capacity for pleasure was suffering from increased constriction, and Mon Oncle poetically eulogized the folkway-fertile 'vieux cartier' that was its genetic genesis, ...