Mon Oncle

Mon Oncle (1958)

  • 91% of critics liked it
    (22 reviews)

  • 88% of users liked it
    (6,910 ratings)

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… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 54 min.
Directed By
Jacques Tati
Written By
Jacques LaGrange, Jean L'Hote, Jacques Tati
Genres
Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
Nov 3, 1958 Wide
On DVD
Jan 6, 2004
Continental Distributing Inc.

Critic Reviews

  • , Variety

    Satire is not barbed or vicious and everybody can laugh at it and themselves. There's expert blocking out of the characters, creative use of sound, and eschewing of all useless dialog.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    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.

  • Bosley Crowther, New York Times

    Facing it squarely, My Uncle is perceptibly contrived when it lingers too long and gets too deeply into the dullness of things mechanical. After you've pushed one button and one modernistic face, you've pushed them all.

  • Matt Pais, Metromix.com

    This very-French-yet-English-language comedy is not only slow, but its stabs at satire are milder than a quarter bouncing off Mount Rushmore.

  • Shawn Levy, Oregonian

    The film is breezy, musical and utterly charming.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Lucas M


    Mon Oncle is not just a funny satire of the bourgeoisie, technology, falseness and the politically correct, but is also a sweet portrait of childhood and one of the most delightfully films that I ever saw. Fresh.

  • Matheus C


    Assim como a imagem de Charles Chaplin ficou eternizada no consenso popular através de seu personagem Vagabundo, caracterizado pelo seu bigode, bengala e chapéu, a primeira relação que pode ser feita ao nome de Jacques Tati é de uma figura alta, de cachimbo e chapéu, vestindo um longo… More

  • Rubia Carolina .


    * the opening credits * the soundtrack (Mon Oncle/Adios Mario by Franck Barcellini) * France in those lovely old times * Chaplin + Keaton + le bon vivant = Monsieur Hulot * foretaste of The Jetsons cartoon * the best reconciliation between dad and son (maybe a proper review… More

  • First L


    Filmmaker Jacques Tati sets his satirical sights on french upper/middle class suburban living in 1958's "Mon oncle". Mr and Mrs. Arpel and their son, Gerard, live in a bizarro, modernistic "house of the future". They live an anti-septic, assembly line… More

  • El Hombre I


    If this film can be said to have a theme beyond the effort to amuse, it's the anxieties of an over-mechanized world for a man no longer fitting in with the technological advancements of his surroundings, including the hilariously ultra-modern home of his brother-in-law and a… More

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