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Article: Mon Oncle.(Adrienne Servantie)(Review)
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- Cineaste
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- September 22, 2001
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Directed by Jacques Tati; starring Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, and Alain Bercourt. DVD, color, 116 mins., French dialog with English subtitles. Distributed by The Criterion Collection.
Excluding Parade (1973), the loose assemblage of circus gags and routines he made for French television at the end of his career, the Jacques Tati oeuvre consists of five feature films. The middle film of those five, Mon Oncle, reflects Tati in transition between the warmth and whimsy of Jour de fete (1949) and Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953), and the elaborate-but-often-cold comic spectacles of Playtime (1967) and, to a lesser extent, Traffic (1971). As such ...