1958 · comedy
Mon Oncle
Directed by Jacques Tati1h 58m1958
Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.
Our read: Mon Oncle (1958) reads as a cosy, steady, inventive comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Cosy, steady, gentle comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- signature
- intimate
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“You want gentle, wordless comedy about modern life without rush or noise.”
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