Mon Oncle (1958)

Highly Recommended

France

Feature Film

Original Title: Mon oncle

Writer/Director: Jacques Tati

Cinematographer: Jean Bourgoin

Composers: Franck Barcellini, Alain Romans

Cast: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Alain Bécourt

In Tati’s hugely inventive, gently satirical, and frequently hilarious look at the alienating effects of progress, Monsieur Hulot struggles to adapt to a rapidly modernising world, particularly when visiting his decidedly snobby sister and family, who live in a cold and frightfully ugly house in which any and everything is automated and charcterless. Iain.Stott