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Jun 8, 2003 · 110 minutes ‧ 1958. Roger Ebert. June 8, 2003. 7 min read. Jacques 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.
Mon oncle is Tati's most touching and pleasant film, a masterpiece of physical comedy and meticulous planning, and a delicately heartrending story about family bonds.
Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati) 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.
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Sep 6, 2010 · In Mon Oncle, Paris is pitched between the architectural remnants of its florid, romantic Belle Epoque architecture, kiosks and all, and a new sterile modernity in which functionality trumps beauty. Guess which one Tati favors?
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Mon Oncle holds an approval rating of 94% based on 32 reviews, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Jacques Tati's most accessible film is a paean to gentle values and observing the small details of life."
Dec 26, 2021 · In Mon Oncle, the inventive comedy from the brilliant French writer-director Jacques Tati, the main target is the depersonalization of modern life–not so much the mechanization that Charlie Chaplin satirized in Modern Times (1936), as the sterile and tasteless tedium that modern life and its innovations have inflicted on our lives.
Sep 10, 2012 · Discover the best of the city, first. Tati's first film in colour. Yes, his contrast of the glorious awfulness of the Arpels' automated Modernistic house with Hulot's disordered Bohemianism is sim.
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