1980 · drama · psychology · ensemble
Mon oncle d'Amérique
Directed by Alain Resnais2h 6m1980
Professor Henri Laborit uses three people's stories to discuss behaviourist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety: René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing; Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite; and Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.
Our read: Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · psychology · ensemble entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / psychology, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- inventive
- twisty
- signature
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