French filmmaker and comedian Jacques Tati's third feature, and first in colour. The nearly dialogue-free narrative follows Tati's pipe-smoking, unemployed Monsieur...
French filmmaker and comedian Jacques Tati's third feature, and first in colour. The nearly dialogue-free narrative follows Tati's pipe-smoking, unemployed Monsieur Hulot as he spends his days being a bad influence on his adoring nephew and wrestling with a new world of plastics and mechanics. Concerned about his future, Hulot's relatives attempt to find him employment and pair him off with a neighbour, with little success on either front.
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89 %7,542 reviewsAudience score rating
"Satire is not barbed or vicious and everybody can laugh at it and themselves."
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Variety
Variety"Unforgettably funny, wonderfully observed, and always technically brilliant."
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Time Out
Time Out"Perceptibly contrived when it lingers too long and gets too deeply into the dullness of things mechanical."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"Delightful, but bum-numbingly slow."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineMon oncle | Details
Award winner- Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards 1959; Jury Special Prize winner at Cannes Film Festival 1958
- Rating
- G,
- Runtime
- 116
- Genre
- Comedy
- Country of origin
- France, Italy
