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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780023994
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780023994
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 06, 2004
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 10207
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: November 03, 1958
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Description:
Slapstick prevails when Jacques Tati's eccentric hero Monsieur Hulot is let loose in the ultramodern house 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. Academy Award winner, Best Foreign Film.
Amazon.com:
A comic masterpiece from director-star Jacques Tati (Playtime, Traffic), this 1958 film--Tati's first in color--reprises the carefree, oblivious title character from the director's hilarious international hit Mr. Hulot's Holiday. This time, the story finds Hulot, a self-involved twit on a constant collision with the physical world, grappling with 1950s-style progress. Visiting his sister and brother-in-law in their ultra-progressive household full of noisy gadgets and futuristic decor, Hulot inevitably has dust-ups with modernity, each one exceptionally funny. Taking a page from Buster Keaton's playbook, Tati also employs his trademark techniques with sound and production design to achieve the indefinable, comic genius of his films: the rhythmic clacking of footsteps, the cartoon-panel distance of his camera frame from the heart of the action. (Why are funny things funnier when seen from a few extra feet away?) Tati is one of the cinema's great treasures, and this movie is unforgettable. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - Mon Oncle
If you sign up to this genre, it's perfect. Gently amusing and charming. Commenting cleverly on the arrogance of modernity over the more traditional lifestyle.
Rating: - Tati: at your birthday's party!
My uncle was for the cinema what "A brave new world" for literature but told with an ever smiling face. Once more Jacques Tati returns with his acidic and pleasant confrontation between the common man and the increasingly depersonalized and mechanized society, always in a hurry without the demanded time to enjoy the minor simplicities and overlooked things the live gives is.
That's why this film awarded with all the honors the coveted Prize of Best Foreign Film in 1958.
Rating: - THIS IS EB BEST OF THE HULOT SERIES
I LOVED MR HUOT'S VACATION, BUT ONE ONCLE TO ME IS THE FUNNIEST OF THE HOT SERIES. I LOVED THE PRETENTIOUSNESS OF THE BOURGEOISIE, AND THE PANNING OR THE PLASTIC HOUS AND THE REAL LIVING QUARTERS ON THE FRENCH. ALSO,HOW THE LITTLE DOG AND MON. HULOT'S NEWPHEW ACCEPTED THE REAL WORLD, AND NOT THE PLATIC ONE CREATED BY HIS FATHER.
THIS A MUST SEE!!!!!
Rating: - "Better" is no good if a child doesn't go with it
In the aftermath of WWII, most western world faced similar problems. Large scale urban planning and large scale industrial projects seemed common answers. It's Tati's intuition, transposed in this 1959 film, that captured how fit these answers have become. Now, with all the social unrest and physical decay in socially engineered urban centers, we can see that those answers were temporary fixes at best. At a different level, it shows the limitations of rational approaches to social re-engineering.
The elements of this film can almost be divided neatly in any pair of the following categories: Old and New; Chaos, Order; Emotional, Rational; Organic, Synthetic; Myriad of unwritten rules, Clear and specified rules; and on and on. Common between any two opposing categories are a social misfit, a child, and a dog. Socially, they belong to parallel categories, yet they enter each other's realm by literally passing through a broken brick-wall. The misfit is Mr. Hulot, who belongs to the old world--played here by the director himslef, Jacques Tati. The child is Mr. Hulot's nephew, who lives with his well-off parents and the dog in a house/society of the future, as imagined by the forward-thinking minds of the moment. Nobody seems well adjusted to the synthetic world yet it is only the child who shows it without restraint. At least Mr. Hulot is the typical misfit, no matter what world he lives in. This remains so, despite the serial mishap befallen unto the inhabitants of the ... Read More
Rating: - A Masterpiece of French Cinema
"Mon Oncle" is the 2nd film in the highly acclaimed "Hulot" series and is, arguably, the best. How qualified I am to say that, I don't know. I've seen "M. Hulot's Holiday" and now I've seen "Mon Oncle," but that still leaves "Playtime" and "Traffic." I'm confident with my choice though. "Mon Oncle" was released 5 years after "M. Hulot's Holiday" and won the Best Foreign Film Oscar. It's also in color as opposed to the black & white of the earlier film, but it's in color for good reason. Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot is very much like Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp. The same character in every film only in a different situation and sporting a slightly different personality. In "M. Hulot's Holiday," Monsieur Hulot was the protagonist. A happy and simple man who was on vacation and just happened to wreak havoc almost everywhere he went. In "Mon Oncle," Hulot is, in the words of Roger Ebert, "a lost soul, unemployed, bemused, and confused..." That's true, because in the first film the surroundings seemed to fit Hulot. Even the light, happy jazz score seemed to fit the man. The world in which "Mon Oncle" takes place is exactly where Hulot does not belong. In this film, Hulot lives at the top of a large building, which actually appears to be two buildings. He lives near his sister Madame Arpel (Adrienne Servantie) and his brother-in-law Monsieur Arpel (Jean-Pierre Zola). Monsieur Arpel works at a plant called Plastac that manufactures plastic hose. While Monsieur Arpel works at getting Hulot a job ... Read More
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