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Information
- A.k.a.
- My Uncle
- Year
- 1958
- Runtime
- 116 min.
- Director
- Jacques Tati
- Genre
- Comedy
- Rating *
- 7.7
- Votes *
- 15,840
- Checks
- 4,987
- Favs
- 505
- Dislikes
- 73
- Favs/checks
- 10.1% (1:10)
- Favs/dislikes
- 7:1
Top comments
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Thorkell
I have been re watching Tati, one by one, these last months. I'm not a fan of predictable, silly humor, like Dumb and Dumber. This however I find funny and charming and beautiful! How I wish Tati made more films. He had such a wonderful eye for the comic side of things we take for granted. And just imagine what he could have done with our modern world today. Where is the modern version of Tati??? We need him/her!!!
I loved how this film ends where his next film, Play Time begins, at the airport. Is Play Time maybe the story of what happened after Hulot steps of the plain he took in this one? 11 years 9 months ago -
Siskoid
One of Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot comedies, Mon oncle (My Uncle) contrasts his character's simple but messy Old World living, and his sister's life in the suburbs, in a crazy modern house. Hulot, France's answer to Chaplin's tramp or England's Mister Bean, is definitely a creature of the former. In those sections, we find charm, amusing character vignettes, and nostalgic slice of life film making. The corner café music is going to run in your head for hours after, fair warning. In the futuristic world of the house (and the brother-in-law's plastic factory), we find satire. It's all automated living, malfunctioning contraptions, and style over function despite the Spartan functionality. The score is replaced by ticking, static and steam pipes. No wonder the nephew in the story escapes this present-day future for the more chaotic pleasures of the present-day past. But what a set! The story structure is very loose, mostly something to hang light gags on, and it kind of just ends. It's more of a free-flowing editorial on modern living, a humorist's billet that looks sharp, but isn't overly concerned with narrative. 5 years 1 month ago -
tricksta_p
Filled to the brink with the elaborate comedic set pieces Tati is renowned for. A masterpiece of wit and choreography. 11 years 4 months ago
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This movie ranks #11 in Academy Award - Best International Feature Film
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This movie ranks #16 in Time Out's The 100 Best French Films
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This movie ranks #19 in Academy Award - Best International Feature Film Nominees
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This movie ranks #26 in BBC's The 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time
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This movie ranks #48 in Cahiers du Cinéma's Annual Top 10 Lists
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This movie ranks #59 in iCheckMovies's 1950s Top 100
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This movie ranks #76 in François Truffaut's The Films in My Life
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This movie ranks #132 in The Criterion Collection
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This movie ranks #211 in Mark Cousins's The Story of Film: An Odyssey
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This movie ranks #218 in Roger Ebert's Great Movies
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This movie ranks #328 in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
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This movie ranks #359 in Sight & Sound's The Greatest Films of All Time
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This movie ranks #389 in TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
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This movie ranks #435 in Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
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This movie ranks #592 in The New York Times's Book of Movies
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This movie ranks #593 in The Guardian's 1000 Films to See Before You Die
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This movie ranks #618 in Time Out's 1000 Films to Change Your Life
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