Plot Summary
Slapstick prevails again when Jacques Tati’s eccentric, old-fashioned hero, Monsieur Hulot, is set loose in Villa Arpel, the geometric, oppressively ultramodern home of his brother-in-law, and in the antiseptic plastic 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 director the Academy Award for best foreign-language film. This edition features both the original French release and My Uncle, the version Tati created for English-speaking audiences.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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91%- Reviews Counted: 22
- Fresh: 20
- Rotten: 2
- Average Rating: 8.4/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Satire is not barbed or vicious and everybody can laugh at it and themselves. There's expert blocking out of the characters, creative use of sound, and eschewing of all useless dialog.
Fresh: 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.
Fresh: No less a masterpiece than its Gallic-tongued cousin.
Fresh: Though still a triumph of art direction, Mon Oncle's fuzzy sentiment and one-joke critique of modernity seem even more simplistic in English.
- Genre: Comedy
- Expected Release: Oct 07, 2014
- © 1958 Les Films de Mon Onlce – SPECTA Films C.E.P.E.C.