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Mon Oncle

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Released: 2004-01-06

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Mon Oncle DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Yvonne Arnaud, Claude Badolle, Nicolas Bataille, Michel Goyot, Dominique Marie, J.F. Martial, Adelaide Danielli, André Dino, Loriot, Denise Peronne, Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Alain Becourt, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis, Betty Schneider

Director(s): Jacques Tati

Features:
Digital transfer, with restored image and sound
Video introduction by writer, director, and performer Terry Jones
"L'école des facteurs," the 1947 short film directed by and starring Jacques Tati
Improved English subtitles translation
Mon Oncle DVD Details
Video:
Pre-1954 Standard
Audio:
PCM mono
Language:
French
Subtitles:
English
Running Time: 116
Genre: Foreign Film [dub Or Subtitle]
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 037429155929
Product Code: CRRNONC030DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1958
Studio: Criterion
Mon Oncle DVD Summary 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 seems designed specifically to frustrate Hulot, who unwittingly disrupts its operations at every opportunity.

Concerned about his future, Hulot's relatives attempt to find him gainful employment and pair him off with a neighbor, with little success on either front.

The nearly dialogue-free film is less concerned with the family's attempts as they relate to an overall plot, and more interested in how they play into its overall scheme of contrasts and allow for Tati's unmistakable sight-and-sound gag set pieces.