MON ONCLE
| 1959 – 116′ – Comedy, Famille 10+, Classic.
Written by: Jacques Tati, Jean L’Hôte, Jacques Lagrange.
Directed by: Jacques Tati.
Starring: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Alain Becourt, Lucien Fregis, Dominique Marie, Betty Schneider, Jean-François Martial.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 1958. Winner Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award 1959.
In French with English subtitles.
A The Criterion Collection release. |
Slapstick prevails again when Jacques Tati’s eccentric, old-fashioned hero, is set loose in the geometric, ultramodern home of his brother-in-law, and in the antiseptic hose factory where he gets a job. The second Hulot movie and Tati’s first color film, Mon oncle is a supremely amusing satire of mechanized living and consumer society that earned the Academy Award for best foreign-language film.