Harpur Cinema Presents: Mon Oncle

Jacques Tati, France 1958, 116 mins

Friday, March 22, 2024, and Sunday, March 24, 2024: Lecture Hall 6, 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:00 pm. $4 Single Admission

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 the director the Academy Award for best foreign-language film.