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Mon oncle

Screening on Film
Directed by Jacques Tati.
With Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis.
France/Italy, 1958, 35mm, color, 110 min.
French with English subtitles.

When Monsieur Hulot, Tati’s cinematic comic alter ego, goes to visit his sister’s family, his simple lifestyle comes into contact—and conflict—with their ultramodern way of life. In a series of brilliant set pieces, Hulot traipses around their absurdly automated home, fumbles his way through a new job at his brother-in-law’s plastics factory, and forms a very real human bond with his nephew, who is similarly alienated by modern living. A thought-provoking examination of the negative effects of modernity, Mon oncle is a singular achievement by one of the all-time masters of comic film.

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