Mon Oncle
- Jacques Tati: Monsieur Hulot
- Adrienne Servantie: Madame Arpel
- Jean -Pierre Zola: Charles Arpel
- Alain Bécourt: Gerard Arpel
My uncle ( Original title: Mon oncle ). 's A French comedy film directed by Jacques Tati in 1958 Tati embodied in this satire, which caricatured the sterile and automated modern world, according to The Mr. Hulot's Holiday for the second time the clumsy outsider Monsieur Hulot. My uncle was largest to Tati's success; the film won the 1958 Special Jury Prize at the International Film Festival in Cannes, and a year later the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Premiere date was for the Federal Republic of Germany on 23 June 1959 for the German Democratic Republic on 23 February 1962.
Action
The nine- year-old boy Gérard lives with his parents in a modern house in a new development. His father is a general manager of a plastics factory, his mother takes care devoted to the automated clinically clean household. The however, for its inhabitants has some pitfalls: Thus said the Lord of the house is once imprisoned by his dachshund who operates with his wagging tail when receiving the light barrier for the garage door. Jim's best friend is his uncle, Monsieur Hulot, who lives in an old house nested. Hulot brings Gérard regularly from school and take him to a group of playmates. This organize inter alia, regularly to bring a betting game, where it comes passers at the right moment by blowing the whistle to the head contact and collision with a streetlight. After these trips with his uncle Gérard is regularly so polluted that touches his mother at the reception in their apartment only with sterile rubber gloves and pointed fingers and directly poses with clothes under the shower.
Hulot's sister worries about her brother and the bad influence he exerts on Gérard. She wants to set him up with her neighbor, and therefore organized a party at her house. Hulot, who is regularly at loggerheads with the technique, but inadvertently causes chaos and bursts the party. Even the attempt to give a job in Monsieur Hulot Arpels company fails; sausage -like structures are produced instead of rubber hoses through carelessness Hulot.
When they find on their wedding night Hulot in her living room on a design sofa asleep, decide Arpels, finally get rid of him. Monsieur Hulot Arpel sent as a representative of the company to North Africa. The next day, Gerard and his father Hulot accompany you to the airport, where Gérard must say goodbye to his uncle. In the end, father and son reconcile, as a passer, they play together in the parking lot a prank.
Genesis
After the great artistic and financial success of the Mr. Hulot's Holiday, it took five years to Jacques Tati had finished his third feature film. Financial independence allowed him to produce my uncle himself. New partner in the Constitution of the screenplay was Jacques Lagrange, who was primarily responsible for the storyboard drawings. With it succeeded Tati to develop a sophisticated visual concept, in which the old world, represented by the district in which Hulot lives, and the modern world, represented by the House of Arpels, meet. My uncle has significantly more visual gags as Tati's earlier films, the round window in the house the night Arpels to eyes, watching Hulot's battle with the garden gate critical. As in The Mr. Hulot's Holiday is Tati a noise for comic effects. My uncle is very dialogue -heavy in comparison to his other films. The plot of the film has a higher priority than usual.
The recordings of the old town originated in the southeastern Paris Saint- Maur- des-Fosses. Some residents of the community also occur in scenes of the film. The house was built in the Arpels in a film studio in Nice on the plans Lagrange. My uncle was Tati's first color film, and shows developed by Tati with cinematographer Jean Bourgoin Farbdramaturgie: Garish colors for the modern quarter and earthy, warm colors for Hulot's district. As usual, most of the roles were filled in my uncle with amateur actors, of which Tati hoped for greater authenticity.
Tati aimed from the outset from an international marketing of my uncle. Thus, parallel to the French version was an English version My Uncle, which turned out shorter by ten minutes. This alternative version but was quickly taken off the market and was forgotten until the original negatives in 2004 were rediscovered and restored.
Reviews
Lexicon of international film: "With twinkling irony satire told that encounters the cold comfort of materialistic life with tender humor and smirking wisdom. Monsieur Hulot, who live wisely - quixotic hero, his little nephew takes in the town, whose parents are Hulot's perfect antithesis: large, modernist snobs, robot tech age. The main character of this comedy plays Tati himself; a dreamy personality with a silhouette that marks their inability to adapt to a life without heat. "