Mon Oncle
1958
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (formerly Best Foreign Language Film) — 31st Academy Awards
- Director:
- Jacques Tati
- Studio:
- Specta-Films, Gray-Film, Alter-Films, Film del Centauro, Cady-Films
- Starring:
- Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Alain Bécourt, Betty Schneider
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Monsieur Hulot, a genial, old-fashioned bachelor, drifts through his sister's ultra-modern, gadget-obsessed household, unwittingly wreaking gentle havoc on its sterile efficiency every time he visits his young nephew. His sister and brother-in-law, eager to mold Hulot into a proper modern man with a factory job, watch their aspirations toward status and automation repeatedly undone by his good-natured clumsiness. Jacques Tati's largely wordless visual comedy contrasts Hulot's warm, chaotic humanity against a postwar France increasingly infatuated with consumerism and mechanized living.