Mon oncle Antoine

Screening on Film

Directed by Claude Jutra.
With Jean Duceppe, Jacques Gagnon, Lyne Champagne.
Canada, 1971, 35mm, color, 110 min.
French with English subtitles.

Frequently voted the greatest Canadian film of all time, Mon oncle Antoine is a deeply cinematic record of ordinary life in a small Canadian mining town. The action occurs during one Christmas Eve in 1940 and develops into a tender and funny rite-of-passage essay whose unique mood is enhanced by the film’s intimate interiors and Québec’s open winter landscape.