Set Your DVR!: Mon Oncle

Posted by Hayden Childs


Apologies for the lateness of the hour, but I quickly wanted to mention that TCM is showing Jacques Tati's utterly delightful Mon Oncle tomorrow (Wed, 2/11) at 12:30 pm central/1:30 pm eastern. Tati reprises his role as Monsieur Hulot, the bumbling and well-meaning holy fool he previously played in M. Hulot's Holiday and would play again in Playtime and Trafic.  In this one, Hulot lives in a broken-down boarding house in a forgotten section of Paris where the dogs run free and the community streetsweeper always has something better to do.  His beloved nephew, on the other hand, lives with his obnoxious parents in a modernist nightmare of a house that must be seen to be appreciated.  Here's Hulot trying to understand the kitchen.

 

Again, I'm sorry to bring it up so late, but Mon Oncle is utterly delightful and I couldn't let it pass by without a mention.


Comments

Hayden Childs said:

I apologize for describing this twice as "utterly delightful."  Although if any movie deserves those words, it's this one.

February 11, 2009 11:21 AM

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