Monsieur Hulot is a lovable, bumbling man who adores his top-floor apartment in a run-down corner of the city. He can’t understand why his sister’s family has moved to the suburbs, where their ultra-modern house feels like a nightmare. Hulot only visits to sneak away his mischievous young nephew. But his sister has other plans. She wants Hulot to embrace her new way of life—and she tries to set him up with a wife and a job. Mon Oncle, the second Hulot film and Jacques Tati’s first in colour, is a hilarious satire of modern, mechanised living and consumer culture that earned Tati the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film.

Screening presented by OxArch (The Oxford Architecture Society, Oxford Brookes University).

Reviews

‘Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.’
★★★★★
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times