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Jacques Tati's most accessible film is a paean to gentle values and observing the small details of life.
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Jacques Tati's most accessible film is a paean to gentle values and observing the small details of life.
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Five years after his first appearance, Jacques Tati's M. Hulot returns with Mon Oncle, a film set along the dividing line between Paris' past and its future. Aligned (as is the film) with the former, Hulot lives in a colorful, overpopulated Parisian neighborhood and, lacking employment, spends his days waiting to pick up his adoring nephew from school, and subsequently escorting him to his parents' ultra-modern house. Filled with gadgets, some turned on only to impress the neighbors, the house
Unrated, 1 hr. 54 min.
Nov 3, 1958 Wide
Jan 6, 2004
Continental Distributing Inc.
All Critics (22) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (2) | DVD (12)
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.
Top CriticJacques 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.
Facing it squarely, My Uncle is perceptibly contrived when it lingers too long and gets too deeply into the dullness of things mechanical. After you've pushed one button and one modernistic face, you've pushed them all.
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.
The film is breezy, musical and utterly charming.
No less a masterpiece than its Gallic-tongued cousin.
Though still a triumph of art direction, Mon Oncle's fuzzy sentiment and one-joke critique of modernity seem even more simplistic in English.
This great film won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, but Tati's next, Playtime, goes even further.
This inventive comedy, a satire of the tedious bourgeois life, deservedly won the 1958 Best Foreign-Language Oscar. A nice companion piece to Chaplin's 1936 Modern Times.
Ο παραμορφωτικός φακός του Tati δημιουργεί ένα διαχ`
Unforgettably funny, wonderfully observed, and always technically brilliant.
Funny, inventive, and funny! Did I include inventive?
On target in proclaiming points for the individual over the robotic antiseptic world.
The viewer's reward lies in the film's sprinkles of comic genius.
The satire isn't particularly subtle, but it's often on target -- and some of it is very funny.
It is among Tati's gifts that his gags are often so subtle as to threaten to get away unnoticed.
Mon Oncle is not just a funny satire of the bourgeoisie, technology, falseness and the politically correct, but is also a sweet portrait of childhood and one of the most delightfully films that I ever saw. Fresh.
February 10, 2012Super Reviewer
Assim como a imagem de Charles Chaplin ficou eternizada no consenso popular através de seu personagem Vagabundo, caracterizado pelo seu bigode, bengala e chapéu, a primeira relação que pode ser feita ao nome de Jacques Tati é de uma figura alta, de cachimbo e chapéu, vestindo um longo casaco e com um peculiar modo de
August 8, 2011Super Reviewer
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