Mon Oncle
Summary:
Five years after his first appearance, Jacques Tati's M. Hulot returns with Mon Oncle, a film set along the dividing line between Paris' past and its future. Aligned (as is the film) with the former, Hulot lives in a colorful, overpopulated Parisian neighborhood and, lacking employment, spends his days waiting to pick up his adoring nephew from school, and subsequently escorting hi... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Jacques Tati - (Monsieur Hulot)
Jean-Pierre Zola - (Monsieur Arpel)
Alain Becourt - (Gerald Arpel)
Adrienne Servantie - (Mme. Arpel)
Lucien Frégis - (M. Pichard)
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Review:
Like Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton, France's great comic satirist Jacques Tati plays the role of the bumbling innocent. Tati's irreverent, serio-comic Monsieur Hulot films pit the hero's naive charm against the vagaries of the modern world; nowhere is this theme more overt than in the director's first color film, Mon Oncle. Convo... Continue >>
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