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Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Nov 28, 2000
Running Time
2 hours, 5 minutes
Country France
Production Companies
Andrea Films, TF1 Films Productions
Studio Andrea Films, Films Galatée, Gaumont, Philippe Dussart Productions, TF1 Films
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Other Titles
• Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
• Mein Onkel aus Amerika (1981)
• My American Uncle
• Les Somnambules
• My Uncle from America
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Genre: Drama, Political, Psychodrama, Satire
Plot: Alain Resnais's MON ONCLE D'AMERIQUE may be the best all-around display of the director's unique narrative and photographic techniques. The film begins with still photographs appearing on the screen as a narrator gives a quick biography of each of the three characters in the movie: Jean, Janine, and René. They are presented first in their childhood: a picture of Jean collecting clams, a picture of Janine reciting poetry to her family, and a picture of René in his farm overalls. Then each character introduces him- or herself in young adulthood, and the film rolls as they take turns narrating their own biographies. From there, with frequent interruptions by Professor Henri Laborit, the psychiatrist who takes over as an external narrator, the film assumes the traditional third-person approach to its three subjects, following them as they marry and separate, have affairs, suffer, rejoice, have children, find success, fail miserably, and eventually meet each other. All the while, the psychiatrist-narrator adds fabulously absurd but simultaneously poignant existential explanations for why these characters do what they do. MON ONCLE D'AMERIQUE is a film in which everything has meaning. Every action, every word, each gesture, color, and feeling plays into the explanations of the
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Jean Gruault
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