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Mon Oncle (1958)

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Average Rating: 8.4/10
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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

Jan 6, 2004

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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.

September 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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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.

July 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
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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.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comments (2)
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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.

January 7, 2011 Full Review Source: Metromix.com | Comment
Metromix.com

The film is breezy, musical and utterly charming.

December 16, 2010 Full Review Source: Oregonian | Comment
Oregonian

No less a masterpiece than its Gallic-tongued cousin.

September 8, 2010 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Time Out New York

Though still a triumph of art direction, Mon Oncle's fuzzy sentiment and one-joke critique of modernity seem even more simplistic in English.

September 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

This great film won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, but Tati's next, Playtime, goes even further.

March 21, 2008 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

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.

April 28, 2007 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

Ο παραμορφωτικός φακός του Tati δημιουργεί ένα διαχ`

August 20, 2006 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | Comment
Movies for the Masses

Unforgettably funny, wonderfully observed, and always technically brilliant.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Funny, inventive, and funny! Did I include inventive?

May 25, 2006 Comment
Video-Reviewmaster.com

On target in proclaiming points for the individual over the robotic antiseptic world.

December 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The viewer's reward lies in the film's sprinkles of comic genius.

June 14, 2005 Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | Comment
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

The satire isn't particularly subtle, but it's often on target -- and some of it is very funny.

September 22, 2004 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

It is among Tati's gifts that his gags are often so subtle as to threaten to get away unnoticed.

January 2, 2004 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
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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, 2012
Lucas Martins

Super 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, 2011
Matheus Carvalho

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