Mon Oncle [import]
Mr Hulot takes a precious, playful ... and purely premeditated look at modern times ...
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 16, 2015
- Originally Released: 1958
- Label: Imports
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jacques Tati | |
Performer: | Jean-Pierre Zola & Lucien Fregis | |
Directed by | Jacques Tati | |
Edited by | Suzanne Baron | |
Screenwriting by | Jacques Tati, Jacques LaGrange & Jean L'Hote | |
Composition by | Frank Barcellini & Alain Romans | |
Produced by | Fred Orain, Louis Dolivet & Jacques Tati | |
Director of Photography: | Jean Bourgoin |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1958 -
Best Foreign Language Film: Not Applicable
Cannes 1958 -
Jury Prize: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Tati comments directly on the changes in French society, drawing up little sketches of people forcing themselves into dehumanizing, uncomfortable positions.
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The Dissolve
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Architecture does much of the satirical work here.
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LarsenOnFilm
Rating: 3/4 --
Though still a triumph of art direction, Mon Oncle's fuzzy sentiment and one-joke critique of modernity seem even more simplistic in English.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 5/5 --
No less a masterpiece than its Gallic-tongued cousin.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
Tati's wholehearted rejection of unnecessary dialogue shifts emphasis onto the man himself, and the brilliant performance he delivers.
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CineVue
Rating: 3/5 --
This very-French-yet-English-language comedy is not only slow, but its stabs at satire are milder than a quarter bouncing off Mount Rushmore.
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Metromix.com
Rating: 4/4 --
Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Jacque Tati's second feature film and first film in color reintroduces his hilarious Chaplinesque alter ego, M. Hulot. After having followed Hulot on his sun-drenched, foible-filled seaside vacation in MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY, MON ONCLE finds Tati contrasting Hulot's bohemian provincial home life with the modern, contraption-filled concrete and glass home belonging to his sister and her family, the Arpels, where Hulot's nephew, Gerard, is drowning in boredom. When Hulot comes for a visit, the gadgets get the better of him, in a seamless spectacle of electric switches, slamming doors and malfunctioning accoutrements. Tati shuttles back and forth between Hulot's quaint home of friendly, if mischievous neighbors and music filled provincial café's and the Arpel's surreal and cold ultra modern lifestyle, creating an evocative and whimsical contrast that Tati would develop further in his future masterpieces, PLAYTIME and TRAFFIC. When Mr. Arpel contrives to secure Hulot a position at his rubber tubing factory, Mrs. Arpel simultaneously conspires to fix him up with an eccentric neighbor, Hulot's clumsy and gullible nature lead him into myriad tangles with the Arpels modern lifestyle, climaxing in an intricately absurd garden party.
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Product Info
- UPC: 622406141097
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