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CONCRETE PRESENTS: TRAFIC

CONCRETE PRESENTS: TRAFIC

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  • Runtime: 96 minutes
  • Director: Jacques Tati
  • Country: France
  • Year: 1971
  • Rating: (PG)
  • Film

CONCRETE PRESENTS: TRAFIC

Concrete Mag presents 'Trafic' (1971), Jacques Tati's follow-up to the wonderfully slapstick and post-modern 'Playtime' (1967). 

'Trafic' follows Monsieur Hulot (the French 60s equivalent or Mr Bean), who has been tasked with transporting a new eccentric camper-car to Amsterdam for an upcoming show. The only issue? The crazy chaos of the highways through France and Belgium, which continually find a way to thwart the drive. 

Whereas 'Playtime' focused on the rise of skyscrapers, 'Trafic' keeps its eyes on the road, using the road trip comedy as a way to satirise the increasing rise of motorways, and the lack of individuality that oddly comes from everyone having their own car. Monsieur Hulot, the 1960s French equivalent to the already-pretty-Frenchy Mr Bean, serves as the bumbling fool whose unique invention feels like a sun peeking out from the clouds of grey. 

This screening is part of Crash Culture, a series of screenings by Birmingham-based culture magazine Concrete Mag, exploring Birmingham's dependence on driving through cinema. Through considering how crashes have been depicted on-screen through the ages, Concrete Mag aim to provoke questions of transport safety, ways to change culture, and structural solutions. 
  • Runtime: 96 minutes
  • Director: Jacques Tati
  • Country: France
  • Year: 1971
  • Rating: (PG)
  • Film

Times

Event Key:

  • SO Sold Out
  • WG WatchWord Glasses Available (Closed Captions)
  • AD Phonic Earsets - Audio Description Supported
  • AB Phonic Earsets - Audio Boost Supported