Mon Oncle

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Mon Oncle

1958

1h 58m

Comedy

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Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati) loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew (Alain Becourt). Hulot's sister (Adrienne Servantie), however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.

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Critics Consensus

Jacques Tati's most accessible film is a paean to gentle values and observing the small details of life.

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Jonas Mekas

Village Voice

Apr 20, 2022

It is not a comedy of gags or funny lines (the only kinds of comedy left in Hollywood); here tragedy and comedy go together, enriching each other, contrasting and balancing between laughter and tears.

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Noel Murray

The Dissolve

Nov 3, 2014

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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Keith Uhlich

Time Out

Sep 8, 2010

5/5

It’s clear which monde Tati prefers, something all the more explicit in the American print, in which the “cultured” folks speak scrupulously controlled English and the old-worlders talk ebullient French.

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

May 4, 2024

[Jacques] Tati’s style is effortless as he conducts a complex comic symphonies of sight gags with elegant ease and his gangly performance is deceptively deft and graceful.

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

Aug 24, 2022

4.5/5

There are several themes that Tati plays with in what’s an otherwise playful comedy. He satirizes materialism and the lust for things. And he shows the sterile and artificial relationships of those absorbed with social status.

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Jane Freebury

The Canberra Times (Australia)

Aug 18, 2022

It's a witty but gentle send-up of bourgeois pretention that is a classic of comedy in any language.

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Robert P

@Superbad Oct 5, 2026

Mon Oncle is a *4.5* star Movie!

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Leaburn O

@RT35452347 Sep 8, 2026

Unsubtle dig at modernity which rings a bit hollow but that aside it’s a beautifully shot film and the gags are fun, not too slapstick. This is Hulot at his best. Watched on DVD.

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Ege Sarp D

@egesarp Jul 20, 2026

The movie was ahead of its time. Watching it today taught me that there is something missing in the modern life and the worst part is we became so senseless to those missing parts of humanity, we don't see it. Incredible story with a beautiful setting for underlining the messages that the writer wants to give. Such a spectacular work is done. I would give it 5 star, if the pacing was better and some scenes felt unnecessary, but of course, I am criticising the movie after 60 years, so it was inevitable.

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Alexsander F

@Aelxs Dec 16, 2024

Um dos meus filmes favoritos da vida, da para deixar passar a tarde inteira, é muito bonito, é poesia pura! Como diz Fellini, "Antes de tudo, um filme é uma obra de arte, um quadro em movimentos." E esse filme de Jacques Tati com certeza é um quadro em movimentos, simplesmente perfeito.

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martona t

@RT52717972 Feb 10, 2022

An amusing critique of modern city and the superficiality of attraction to novelty, rold with tenderness and lightness.

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Cameron M

@Cameron11 Aug 15, 2021

Very French film that is a funny critique on the advances of technology and industrialisation. The film shows the life of a family who lives a very modernist life which strips the character from their home. However, they believe it is very impressive and that their house is very "communicative". The uncle, Hulot, does not understand this way of living from the paving stones to the kitchen to the machinery in his brother-in-law's workplace which sets him hilarious hijinks. The score is very catchy tune that works very well with the day-to-day lives of these characters. The only part that became a bit stale was the dinner party where the comedic situations became a bit too absurd and impractical. Overall, a wonderfully made French film that has some great comedic timing.

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Jacques Tati

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Jacques Tati

Monsieur Hulot

Jean-Pierre Zola

Monsieur Arpel

Alain Bécourt

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Synopsis

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati) loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew (Alain Becourt). Hulot's sister (Adrienne Servantie), however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.

Director: Jacques Tati
Producer: Jacques Tati, Fred Orain
Screenwriter: Jacques Lagrange, Jean L'Hôte, Jacques Tati
Distributor: Continental Distributing Inc., Criterion Collection
Production Co: Film del Centauro, Gray-Film, Specta Films, Alter Films
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 3, 1958, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 28, 2016
Runtime: 1h 58m
Sound Mix: Mono

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