| Mon Oncle - Criterion Collection | 
| Actors: Yvonne Arnaud, Claude Badolle, Nicolas Bataille, Alain Becourt, Adelaide Danieli
Studio: Criterion
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (47 reviews)
Sales Rank: 11401
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD
Running Time: 116 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: DONC030D
ISBN: 0780023994
UPC: 374291559296
EAN: 9780780023994
ASIN: B00005A8TU
Release Date: January 6, 2004
Theatrical Release Date: November 3, 1958
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Description
Slapstick prevails when Jacques Tati's eccentric hero Monsieur Hulot is let loose in the ultramodern house of his brother-in-law, and in an antiseptic factory that manufactures plastic hose. Tati directs and stars in the second entry of the Hulot series, a delightful satire of mechanized living. Academy Award winner, Best Foreign Film.
Amazon.com
A comic masterpiece from director-star Jacques Tati (Playtime, Traffic), this 1958 film--Tati's first in color--reprises the carefree, oblivious title character from the director's hilarious international hit Mr. Hulot's Holiday. This time, the story finds Hulot, a self-involved twit on a constant collision with the physical world, grappling with 1950s-style progress. Visiting his sister and brother-in-law in their ultra-progressive household full of noisy gadgets and futuristic decor, Hulot inevitably has dust-ups with modernity, each one exceptionally funny. Taking a page from Buster Keaton's playbook, Tati also employs his trademark techniques with sound and production design to achieve the indefinable, comic genius of his films: the rhythmic clacking of footsteps, the cartoon-panel distance of his camera frame from the heart of the action. (Why are funny things funnier when seen from a few extra feet away?) Tati is one of the cinema's great treasures, and this movie is unforgettable. --Tom Keogh
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 The best of Jacques Tati: M. Hulot franchise October 12, 2008
Expertise a must***
Art House and International Cinema are different than mainstream films.
Regarding Jacques Tatischeff a.k.a. Jacques Tati (1907-1982) was one of the best writers and directors of French Cinema. He played with the absurd, minimalistic language, great acting and directing. Mon Oncle (My Uncle) was released in 1958. Its a comedy in a Futuristic and industrial world, mechanical and minimalistic, mid-century modern and art deco.Remember the GM buses Tour of the future, and Disneyland's House of the future.
Reviews to be useful need to be sincere to have a brief description or synopsis, written clear and concise, and include arguments pros and cons. But most importantly the writer, reviewer or critic most comprehend the subject, it is not about likes or dislikes, it is about a composition, the theme, the subject matter, and transport him or herself to the right period.
Mon Oncle March 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you sign up to this genre, it's perfect. Gently amusing and charming. Commenting cleverly on the arrogance of modernity over the more traditional lifestyle.
Tati: at your birthday's party! November 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My uncle was for the cinema what "A brave new world" for literature but told with an ever smiling face. Once more Jacques Tati returns with his acidic and pleasant confrontation between the common man and the increasingly depersonalized and mechanized society, always in a hurry without the demanded time to enjoy the minor simplicities and overlooked things the live gives is.
That's why this film awarded with all the honors the coveted Prize of Best Foreign Film in 1958.
THIS IS EB BEST OF THE HULOT SERIES August 23, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I LOVED MR HUOT'S VACATION, BUT ONE ONCLE TO ME IS THE FUNNIEST OF THE HOT SERIES. I LOVED THE PRETENTIOUSNESS OF THE BOURGEOISIE, AND THE PANNING OR THE PLASTIC HOUS AND THE REAL LIVING QUARTERS ON THE FRENCH. ALSO,HOW THE LITTLE DOG AND MON. HULOT'S NEWPHEW ACCEPTED THE REAL WORLD, AND NOT THE PLATIC ONE CREATED BY HIS FATHER.
THIS A MUST SEE!!!!!
"Better" is no good if a child doesn't go with it July 22, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
In the aftermath of WWII, most western world faced similar problems. Large scale urban planning and large scale industrial projects seemed common answers. It's Tati's intuition, transposed in this 1959 film, that captured how fit these answers have become. Now, with all the social unrest and physical decay in socially engineered urban centers, we can see that those answers were temporary fixes at best. At a different level, it shows the limitations of rational approaches to social re-engineering.
The elements of this film can almost be divided neatly in any pair of the following categories: Old and New; Chaos, Order; Emotional, Rational; Organic, Synthetic; Myriad of unwritten rules, Clear and specified rules; and on and on. Common between any two opposing categories are a social misfit, a child, and a dog. Socially, they belong to parallel categories, yet they enter each other's realm by literally passing through a broken brick-wall. The misfit is Mr. Hulot, who belongs to the old world--played here by the director himslef, Jacques Tati. The child is Mr. Hulot's nephew, who lives with his well-off parents and the dog in a house/society of the future, as imagined by the forward-thinking minds of the moment. Nobody seems well adjusted to the synthetic world yet it is only the child who shows it without restraint. At least Mr. Hulot is the typical misfit, no matter what world he lives in. This remains so, despite the serial mishap befallen unto the inhabitants of the new world, until the end of the film when, led by a string of events, the father of the child is re-humanized by a prank; ...the same type of prank his son was enjoying in the dis-orderly world of Mr. Hulot.
In the end, we can try to do it all in the name of some progress or another, but if a child (or a dog) doesn't go with it, we have a warning sign. And, at times, an artist comes along and, through artistic production and intuition, is able to look further ahead than most. In 1959, that artist was the director and actor Jacques Tati.
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