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Synopsis

Slapstick prevails when Jacques Tati’s eccentric hero Monsieur Hulot is let loose in the ultramodern home 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. —The Criterion Collection

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Jacques Tati

Filmmaker and actor Jacques Tati reinvented the art of slapstick comedy, expertly dissecting the nature of sight gags and pratfalls while exploiting viewer expectations to create an ambitious, richly detailed cinematic parlor game perfect for exploring the infinite mysteries of the modern world. Born Jacques Tatischeff October 9, 1908, in Le Pecq, France; Tati mounted his first film short, the comedy Oscar, Champion du Tennis, in 1931, but never saw the project through to its completion. His subsequent early work, including 1934’s On Demande une Brute, 1935’s Gai Dimanche, and 1936’s Soigne ton Gauche, presaged his later features in their fascination with natural and mechanical sounds. The outbreak of World War II, which he spent stationed in the village of Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, brought Tati’s career to a temporary halt, and after completing the 1938 short Retour à la terre, he did not appear before the camera again prior to Claude Autant… read more

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espaçonimas

3May13

Jacques Tati volta a divertir-nos este domingo no início do Ciclo Familiar deste mês de Maio com "O MEU TIO", às 15h30. Todos ao Nimas!

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DT

20Mar13

The opening of Mon Oncle bares its thesis: the vitality, innocence of the old arrondissements - frolicking puppies, horse-drawn carriage - against the cold, mechanised life of the modern bourgeoisie, consumer conformism (strikingly realised). Tati, like Chaplin - one behind Modern Times - mayn’t always be hugely subtle, but his charm remains sizeable, in his irreverent, wordless interactions and orchestrated chaos - thus turning his hopeless Luddite into a loveable one. To the Parisian comedy what An American in Paris was the musical: nostalgic effervescence; sheer breeze.

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Aguaespejo, Trolley Freak, Gylfi

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Lynch/Fellini

29Dec12

A magical movie!

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Matt Kilgore

8Dec12

yeaaaaaaaaaaah

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The Forgotten: Retour a la vie

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Pierre Étaix is back! The writer-director-star, a disciple of Tati but very much his own clown, has been released from a kind of purgatory.

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Muybridge, Tati, Latinbeat

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Futuristic Home Is Source of Much Humor

By Byron Brubake​r on February 16, 2011

Watched this on Mubi in preparation for seeing The Illusionist. There were no subtitles provided, so I watched the movie as if it was a silent film. From what I understand about Tati any dialog that…  read review

"Mon Oncle"

By Jon on May 7, 2010

Tati’s fascination with modern rituals, technological functionality, and the ever-widening divide between traditional and contemporary living is here turned into an ingenious series of disorderly situations…  read review

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By Landen Celano on January 25, 2009

I’ve gotta be honest, I was not a fan of this film and don’t understand why it’s been hailed as a classic. There are a lot of classics that I may not be able to connect to, but grasp the reasons why…  read review

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"Mon oncle" in English

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