Mon Oncle

  • Comedy
5/10/1958
118
NR

Mr Hulot takes a precious, playful ... and purely premeditated look at modern times ...

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.

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  • Geronimo1967

    Back in the day when it was very de rigueur to live in an home with all the mod cons we meet la famille Arpel. Monsieur (Jean-Pierre Zola) has a managerial job at a plastics factory and thats keeping his slightly snobbish wife (Adrienne Servantie) in the style to which she has already become accustomed. In the nearby city lives her brother Hulot (Jacques Tati) whose home barely has plumbing and who is concerned that his young nephew Gérard (Alain Bécourt) isnt living life to the full in his gilded cage of an home. Not unreasonably, his parents conclude that uncle might be a bit of a bad influence on their youngster so devise a cunning plan to put him to work at the factory. A risky strategy, methinks - especially as Hulot is very much an in...

    May 31, 2025

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