Oncle

For a similar discourse about how modernist design makes a mockery of comfort and practicality, rent Jacques Tati's 'Mon Oncle'—also from 1958.

Silver-Screen Décor Jen Renzi 2011

Watching Nénette, I (and, very likely, only I) was reminded of a (still) beloved film from my post-adolescent discovery of revival houses, Alain Resnais'Mon Oncle D'Amerique -- specifically, the juxtaposition of animal behavior and human behavior.

Michael Vazquez: On Nénette Michael Vazquez 2011

Watching Nénette, I (and, very likely, only I) was reminded of a (still) beloved film from my post-adolescent discovery of revival houses, Alain Resnais' Mon Oncle D'Amerique -- specifically, the juxtaposition of animal behavior and human behavior.

Michael Vazquez: On Nénette Michael Vazquez 2011

Mille mercis to Oncle Jean-Claude who spotted Baby Hare and took immediate action to rescue it.

lievre - French Word-A-Day 2010

The film does pay its moments of respect to Tati -- perhaps most overtly when a character enters a cinema and there, in live action, we see a screening of his 1958 film "Mon Oncle."

The 'Riffs Interview: 'ILLUSIONIST' filmmaker Sylvain Chomet delves into art, inspiration & Oscars Michael Cavna 2011

If you wanted to stretch a point you could call it social satire, but this first of Tati's Hulot series — which includes "Mon Oncle" and "Trafic" — is much more consistently, and enduringly, a succession of gently humorous sketches having to do with oddity and human frailty.

New 'Grit': Precocious Kid, Repurposed Style Joe Morgenstern 2010

Hulot in one scene our hero pops into a cinema and “Mon Oncle” is showing – the cinema is the Cameo, in Tollcross, and the movie even gets the interior of the cinema right.

Edinburgh 2010 Review: THE ILLUSIONIST | Obsessed With Film 2010

A rare screening of the Ernst Lubitsch masterpiece--and last completed film--Cluny Brown (1946) opened on Christmas Eve at The Film Forum for one week, while the new animated feature The Illusionist directed by Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville) adapted from an original script by the late Jacques Tati (Mon Oncle) debuts on Christmas day in New York and Los Angeles.

Penelope Andrew: Cinematic Enchantment via Lubitsch & Chomet: Cluny Brown Revived at Film Forum, The Illusionist Debuts in NY/LA Penelope Andrew 2010

A rare screening of the Ernst Lubitsch masterpiece--and last completed film--Cluny Brown (1946) opened on Christmas Eve at The Film Forum for one week, while the new animated feature The Illusionist directed by Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville) adapted from an original script by the late Jacques Tati (Mon Oncle) debuts on Christmas day in New York and Los Angeles.

Penelope Andrew: Cinematic Enchantment via Lubitsch & Chomet: Cluny Brown Revived at Film Forum, The Illusionist Debuts in NY/LA Penelope Andrew 2010

Public School, Oxford, Muck around in Local Politics, Join Policy group of some sort, get a job as an MP ` s gopher and then “Robert est Votre Oncle” you are onto the list.

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