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It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The house in which Mr. Hulot's sister with her husband and son live is probably the central character of the film Mon Oncle. The house is a modern and complicated one, you get everything at the push of a button and yet it is very difficult to live. It is a puzzle not only for out of place Mr. Hulot but also for his sister and her husband, the owners of the house. They don't get to hear each other because of the sound of machine, and they learn to cope with it. There are number of things that can go wrong at any time, the decorated trees, the fountain, the kitchen, the garage, the car, the garden, the gate – anything, yet these are impossible to live without.Mr. Hulot himself is the most amusing among all of them. Throughout the film he doesn't utter a single word though seems to say a lot of things with his gestures. He looks very odd in his behavior, and always a misfit, be it in the house or in the workplace. But he is a completely unflappable person, nothing really matters to him. He is devoid of any human emotion. In fact, in some ways all the characters in the film are like dolls, it seems that nothing of this world can touch, move, alter or affect them.The film doesn't have a coherent story to tell, it's about bits and pieces put up together, mostly underlining its central theme of little everyday absurdities rising out of the meeting of contradictions. There are number of characters here and there, the street dogs, the kids, the factory, the school, the sweeper, the shopkeeper and so on and so forth with a little touch of mischief and amusement revolving around all of them.Mon Oncle has striking similarities with Modern Times and Jacques Tati with Charles Chaplin. The first similarity is off course the subject of the film. Second, Mon Oncle should be considered more or less a silent film that has music throughout like Chaplin films (though it has some dialog in it, but one feels nothing would have hampered without it). Third, in simple treatment of camera, and last but not the least, like Chaplin, Tati is also star/director/co-writer and producer of his project. There is probably one difference though. There are numerous scenes in a film like Modern Times that would make us burst out in laughter, but in Mon Oncle it is not so. There is not a moment which makes you burst out in laughter. What it does is something different, it holds you throughout, it amuses you and while watching you always find yourself with a quiet grin on your face. I have seen only two films of Tati (Playtime and Mon Oncle) and it seems to me that both of them could be a bit shorter in length. Probably that's the only negative criticism I have against him.There are number of reasons for which one must see Mon Oncle. It has got amazing sets, stunning lighting, and admirable use of color. It has jovial use of sound and music and brilliant cinematography. Mon Oncle is one timeless classic that can be seen time and time again.

it is a really boring film completely meaningless and only a waste of time for someone to view it.the comedy is not funny at all the acting is annoying also.i cant believe that people give money for such films to get directed.i think that it has some elements of charlie chaplin's modern times but the difference is that modern times is a masterpiece and this one is maybe one of the worst films ever .the film director jack tatti is creating an annoying way of directing scenes with the sausage in the factory with the workers laughing like meaningless morons and the garage thing maybe wants to show us the effects of modern technology in modern for 60s times and that particular scene is really boring and annoying .the film has no script and not rhythm also i hope you will not watch this movie even if a film critic expert calls it cult.but the truth is that after watching it you will not earn anything in the end

Jacques Tati movies seem to be just like Wes Anderson movies. Everyone seems to think they are hilarious to watch, while there is actually very little happening in their movies and all have a slow pace. The stories are thing and mostly consist out of quirky looking characters doing uninteresting things. I'm sorry, I just don't think there is anything funny about it at all.I'm actually really fond of slapstick comedy but Jacques Tati just don't seem to connect to me at all with its humor. This is most probably due to its very lacking pace. It's slow and it suggests that it's building up to something that just never happens though. No, I did not hated watching this movie but still thought it was seriously lacking in humor for a comedy.And really, what is it with Jacques Tati movies and a story. His movies just never seem to feature a main plot line. His movies are literally about nothing and do nothing but concentrate on a whole bunch of characters, going to their normal everyday routines. Of course some silly and humorous events happen and there are loads of returning gags in this but that is basically all that this movie is; the one intended humorously sequence after the other, while in fact most of those humorous sequence don't work out as funny ones because of its slow pace and the fact that just nothing interesting enough is happening.Strangely enough to me these type of movies really seem to connect to a whole bunch of people and critics as well. It must do something right and hilarious in their eyes, or else it obviously wouldn't had won an Oscar as well for best foreign picture but I just don't see what the appeal is of this movie. I rather watch a good slapstick from the early 20th century than a Jacques Tati movie obviously!5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Jacques Tati hails from a small group of super auteuristic filmmakers that includes names from all over the developed world. Few would think to put him in the same category as the likes of Kubrick, Kurosawa or Lynch, but this is an err created by the vortex of commercial culture, not the quality of the work itself. And just a reminder that all Tati movies survive today as part of a resurrection bestowed upon him by admirers within the established film community. The center of this disparity between amateur and professional opinions lies on the single factor of attention to detail. But we all know that subtlety is not the way of the riff-raff.Where is the subtlety? Why, it's in the soup. Mon Oncle features a different style of story-telling in which we are not hit over the head with the details of the plot. But a plot there still is except the central dynamic character is not a traditional character but the setting of Paris. Once you recognize this, you'd see accordingly, the multifarious set elements and caricatures that shape this character. Only then, will you gain unfettered access to the cornucopia that is Tati's vision.In summary, this story is about the silly plight of a much too likable Mr. Hulot lost in an equally charming city bent on embracing the inevitably machinations of modernity. The real joy is noting ALL of the caricature elements and see its beauty in and of itself. Mon Oncle brings to mind, for me, childish emanations of a Where's Waldo type world and that's exactly it. There is light humour throughout but neither sex nor violence.If this just isn't enough for you, no worries, it means you're an adult. Particularly of similar ilk as the G.F. Babbitt incarnations in that ultra modern home.Keynote points: the street sweeper that never actually sweeps, the dog walker that get walked by his dog, and the pastry vendors that repeated wipes his filthy hands on his even-filthier apron, and much much more.