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Directed by Jacques Tati. Written by Jacques Tati and Jacques Lagrange. Music by Alain Romans and Franck Barcellini. With Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Alain Becourt. France, 1958. Tati's second outing as the amiable Monsieur Hulot, and his first colour film, Mon Oncle is a poetic satire on man against machine, rather in the manner of Chaplin's Modern Times and Rene Clair's A Nous La Liberte. Hulot is little Gerard Arpel's uncle, a fond relative whose whimsical ways fail to impress the boy's ultra-modern parents. What transpires is a masterpiece of design which develops Tati's unique comic version without ever losing sight of the essential simplicity he holds so dear. 'Deft, elusive, full of heart, Mon Oncle is a film to see again and again.' Monthly Film Bulletin. 'Extraordinary... unforgettably funny, wonderfully observed, and always technically brilliant.' Time Out.
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