Free Owsley Sunday Film: Mon Oncle

Essential Cinema: 3 X Jacques Tati

Director Jacques Tati was the master auteur of French slapstick comedy with a keen critique of modern consumerist society, class, and technology.

Mon Oncle
Directed by Jacques Tati

Sunday, May 20, 12:30 pm

Free

Slapstick prevails again when Jacques Tati’s eccentric, old-fashioned hero, Monsieur Hulot, is set loose in Villa Arpel, the geometric, oppressively ultramodern home of his brother-in-law, and in the antiseptic plastic hose factory where he gets a job. The second Hulot movie and Tati’s first color film, Mon Oncle is a supremely amusing satire of mechanized living and consumer society that earned an Academy Award.  1958, France, 35mm, English language version, 116 minutes.