Webpage with a 'Mon Oncle' description, FAQ, walkthrough, and stills.
Watch a three-plus minute scene from 'Mon Oncle.' It's unfortunately dubbed into Spanish, but since Tati's film uses dialogue minimally as a kind of structural component and texture, it's worth a look.
An excellent short essay taken from the booklet accompanying the Criterion Collection's DVD of 'Mon Oncle.'
posted by Dennis Cooper at 11:57 AM
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Saw this film while out with a bad back this winter, right after watching the original Lord of the Flies for the first time -- certainly palate-cleansing! Weirdly spooky in its own way, but hilarious, and blissfully free of background music -- the movie is overall extremely quiet. Mr. Cooper is quite right that the slapstick works as a sort of excuse for some fascinating filmography, but still some of the slapstick is just out and out ridiculously stupidly hilarious (the single woman's endless exhalation of cigarette smoke perhaps my favorite goofiness...). All that deadly kitchen machinery! The troublemaking ragamuffins are a kick, and the uncle's nephew is pretty as a picture.
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