Mon Oncle( 1958)

TV-MAComedy

74%

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Mr Hulot takes a precious, playful ... and purely premeditated look at modern times ...

Overview

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.

Top Billed Cast

Jacques Tati
Monsieur Hulot
Jean-Pierre Zola
Monsieur Arpel
Adrienne Servantie
Madame Arpel
Lucien Frégis
Monsieur Pichard
Betty Schneider
Betty, Landlord's Daughter
Jean-François Martial
Walter
Dominique Marie
Neighbor
Yvonne Arnaud
Georgette, the Housekeeper
Adelaide Danieli
Madame Pichard
Alain Bécourt
Gérald Arpel
Régis Fontenay
Braces Dealer
Claude Badolle
Ragman
Max Martel
Drunken Man
Nicolas Bataille
Working Man
Pierre Étaix
Delivery man / Telegraph operator (uncredited)
Jean-Claude Rémoleux
Client in Monsieur Arpel's Factory (uncredited)
Denise Péronne
Mademoiselle Fevrier (uncredited)
Nicole Regnault
Short-sighted motorist (uncredited)
Édouard Francomme
House Painter (uncredited)
André Dino
Sweeper (uncredited)
René Lord
(uncredited)

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Sat May 31 2025

Back in the day when it was very de rigueur to live in an home with all the mod cons we meet la famille “Arpel”. Monsieur (Jean-Pierre Zola) has a managerial job at a plastics factory and that’s keeping his slightly snobbish wife (Adrienne Servantie) in the style to which she has already become accustomed. In the nearby city lives her brother “Hulot” (Jacques Tati) whose home barely has plumbing and who is concerned that his young nephew “Gérard” (Alain Bécourt) isn’t living life to the full in his gilded cage of an home. Not unreasonably, his parents conclude that uncle might be a bit of a bad...