Trafic (1971) [The Criterion Collection #439]

In Jacques Tati’s Trafic, the bumbling Monsieur Hulot, kitted out as always with tan raincoat, beaten brown hat, and umbrella, takes to Paris’s highways and byways. In this, his final outing, Hulot is employed as an auto company’s director of design, and accompanies his new product (a “camping car” outfitted with absurd gadgetry) to an auto show in Amsterdam. Naturally, the road there is paved with modern-age mishaps. This late-career delight is a masterful demonstration of the comic genius’s expert timing and sidesplitting knack for visual gags, and a bemused last look at technology run amok.

Special Features
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
“Jacques Tati in Monsieur Hulot’s Work,” a 1976 episode of the British television program Omnibus featuring an interview with Tati about his Hulot films
Trailer
New English subtitle translation