Mon Oncle

Jacques Tati (director, screenwriter, starring)
Jacques Lagrange, Jean L'Hote (screenwriters)

Paris: Gaumont, 1958. Vintage photograph of Jacques Tati as Monsieur Hulot from the 1958 film.

The director's second of four films featuring the inimitable Monsieur Hulot. In this chapter, Hulot strays from his rather ordinary Paris neighborhood and into a modern, suburban one, where technological chaos reigns. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and winner of the Jury Special Prize, and winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

7.25 x 5 inches. Near Fine, with a shallow diagonal crease to one corner.

Criterion Collection 111. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000.


[Book #139689]