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Year: 1971
Director: Claude Jutra
Plot: With Mon Oncle Antoine, actor Jean Duceppe established himself as Canada's principle purveyor of eccentric relatives. Playing the uncle of 15-year-old Jacques Ganon, Duceppe acts as the lad's confidante through the difficult coming-of-age process. The Canadian backwoods and the mining-town milieu of the 1940s are displayed to excellent nostalgic advantage in this retrospective piece from writer/director Claude Jutra (who also plays a supporting role). Though relatively unknown in the states (and often dismissed as unremarkable by below-the-border critics), Mon Oncle Antoine is regarded as a classic of the Canadian Cinema. The film won an unprecedented eight statuettes at the 1972 Canadian Film Institute Awards, including best picture and best director. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:13:25 GMTMon Oncle Antoine1971Claude JutraWith Mon Oncle Antoine, actor Jean Duceppe established himself as Canada's principle purveyor of eccentric relatives. Playing the uncle of 15-year-old Jacques Ganon, Duceppe acts as the lad's confidante through the difficult coming-of-age process. The Canadian backwoods and the mining-town milieu of the 1940s are displayed to excellent nostalgic advantage in this retrospective piece from writer/director <a href="/players/P____96521/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Claude Jutra</a> (who also plays a supporting role). Though relatively unknown in the states (and often dismissed as unremarkable by below-the-border critics), Mon Oncle Antoine is regarded as a classic of the Canadian Cinema. The film won an unprecedented eight statuettes at the 1972 Canadian Film Institute Awards, including best picture and best director. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide6Taggedy Taggged (6-10)822http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t11021e5bj2.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Mon_Oncle_Antoine/67479/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/joem18b/archive/2008/8/26/34386.aspx Post By: joem18b
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Post Date: 8/26/2008 2:13:26 AM
Body: Any movie that puts a human face on Iran and the Iranian people is a good thing. Plus, my dentist is Iranian. So is my congressperson, come to think of it. Persepolis covers the history of the country from the fall of the Shah up to a while ago. They don't make movies like Married Life anymore; only, this time, they did. The thing I like about Scorpian King 2 is that the hero carries his sword in a leather scabbard on his back and every time that he draws it, it makes a metallic rasping sound - forget the leather - followed by a ringing twang! I'll probably never take the time to write about The Life Before Her Eyes (2008), but I see 500 movies a year and maybe one out of the 500 affects me like this one did. A story that gets it just right, for me. Watched The Darwin Awards (2006) again. Was entertained all the way through, same as the first time. I wonder if this film is developing a following; it deserves one. Winona and Fiennes have some chemistry. My Canadian friend Matt the Movie Watcher assigned me Mon Oncle Antoine (1971) over on the Filmspotting Boards. The Criterion version that I watched is immaculate. Set in the 1940s, this naturalistic (till the director starts riffing) film of country life in Quebec is fresh enough to have been made yesterday. The Canadian National Film Board helped with its production; correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that this might have been the first major example of Quebecois film. The NFB has funded quite a few works that feature drama in lesser-known areas of Canada and without it, film in Quebec might never have got off the ground. I grew up in a small rural town in the late 40s and early 50s and instantly related to the setting and characters in this movie. It was filmed in Black Lake City and at the Thetford asbestos mines in Québec.Mon Oncle Antoine is a milestone film, most highly thought of. Be interesting to see if it's mentioned on the Filmspotting top-Canadian-film lists this week.I can recommend the movie without reservation to anyone interested in a quiet, closely-observed visit to a small town in the country in the 40s, featuring a variety of interesting characters making a hard life seem a little easier that it probably is - especially since the town is dominated by an open-pit asbestos mine that coats everything, including the lungs of the residents, with carcinogenic dust.Having said that, it strikes me that the director, Claude Jutra, who here adapted a short story for the screen and directed the movie, turned his back on the possibility of making a classic film, ending up with a very good movie instead. I've just posted a review elsewhere of "Mother of Mine," and I had the same thought about the director of that film, Klaus Härö. In both cases, the director seems not to trust the tremendous power of the basic story that he is dealing with and instead tacks on an unnecessary melodramatic narrative that entertains us in the moment but can't stand up to scrutiny later, relegating both films to the category of rural picaresque. Jutra might well have worked from a checklist here that includes a teenager breathing his last, a journey over unpaved roads with a hard-to-manage coffin (when "As I Lay Dying" was published, this trope should have been moved to the Pantheon and left alone there), a teen's first look at the adult female rack and I'm not talking about Bambi's mother here, so forth. A documentary about Jutra is included and it's as interesting as the film itself. A life of struggle to make movies by a gifted man with money woes. Puts me in mind of Orson Welles.I also seem to be developing an aversion to characters who stare straight ahead without speaking, leaving us to divine their thoughts and relieving the author of the responsibility of writing intelligent and original dialog for them. Jacques Gagnon, who plays a young man whose final sudden coming of age is compressed into the confines of a day or so, underacts in a way that perhaps mimics the frozen silent wastes of those great northern forests up there, which will probably be filling up with refugee polar bears any day now.And Bravo! to Olivette Thibault, who gets her ashes hauled here at the age of 57 by a youngish Jutra himself.Mon Oncle Antoine is filled with interesting characters and interesting moments, entertains in its every frame, and is a gem indeed. Thanks to Matt for choosing it for me!
]]>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:13:26 GMTjoem18bjoem18b Blog8/26/2008 2:13:26 AMAny movie that puts a human face on Iran and the Iranian people is a good thing. Plus, my dentist is Iranian. So is my congressperson, come to think of it. Persepolis covers the history of the country from the fall of the Shah up to a while ago. They don't make movies like Married Life anymore; only, this time, they did. The thing I like about Scorpian King 2 is that the hero carries his sword in a leather scabbard on his back and every time that he draws it, it makes a metallic rasping sound - forget the leather - followed by a ringing twang! I'll probably never take the time to write about The Life Before Her Eyes (2008), but I see 500 movies a year and maybe one out of the 500 affects me like this one did. A story that gets it just right, for me. Watched The Darwin Awards (2006) again. Was entertained all the way through, same as the first time. I wonder if this film is developing a following; it deserves one. Winona and Fiennes have some chemistry. My Canadian friend Matt the Movie Watcher assigned me Mon Oncle Antoine (1971) over on the Filmspotting Boards. The Criterion version that I watched is immaculate. Set in the 1940s, this naturalistic (till the director starts riffing) film of country life in Quebec is fresh enough to have been made yesterday. The Canadian National Film Board helped with its production; correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that this might have been the first major example of Quebecois film. The NFB has funded quite a few works that feature drama in lesser-known areas of Canada and without it, film in Quebec might never have got off the ground. I grew up in a small rural town in the late 40s and early 50s and instantly related to the setting and characters in this movie. It was filmed in Black Lake City and at the Thetford asbestos mines in Qu&eacute;bec.Mon Oncle Antoine is a milestone film, most highly thought of. Be interesting to see if it's mentioned on the Filmspotting top-Canadian-film lists this week.I can recommend the movie without reservation to anyone interested in a quiet, closely-observed visit to a small town in the country in the 40s, featuring a variety of interesting characters making a hard life seem a little easier that it probably is - especially since the town is dominated by an open-pit asbestos mine that coats everything, including the lungs of the residents, with carcinogenic dust.Having said that, it strikes me that the director, Claude Jutra, who here adapted a short story for the screen and directed the movie, turned his back on the possibility of making a classic film, ending up with a very good movie instead. I've just posted a review elsewhere of "Mother of Mine," and I had the same thought about the director of that film, Klaus H&auml;r&ouml;. In both cases, the director seems not to trust the tremendous power of the basic story that he is dealing with and instead tacks on an unnecessary melodramatic narrative that entertains us in the moment but can't stand up to scrutiny later, relegating both films to the category of rural picaresque. Jutra might well have worked from a checklist here that includes a teenager breathing his last, a journey over unpaved roads with a hard-to-manage coffin (when "As I Lay Dying" was published, this trope should have been moved to the Pantheon and left alone there), a teen's first look at the adult female rack and I'm not talking about Bambi's mother here, so forth. A documentary about Jutra is included and it's as interesting as the film itself. A life of struggle to make movies by a gifted man with money woes. Puts me in mind of Orson Welles.I also seem to be developing an aversion to characters who stare straight ahead without speaking, leaving us to divine their thoughts and relieving the author of the responsibility of writing intelligent and original dialog for them. Jacques Gagnon, who plays a young man whose final sudden coming of age is compressed into the confines of a day or so, underacts in a way that perhaps mimics the frozen silent wastes of those great northern forests up there, which will probably be filling up with refugee polar bears any day now.And Bravo! to Olivette Thibault, who gets her ashes hauled here at the age of 57 by a youngish Jutra himself.Mon Oncle Antoine is filled with interesting characters and interesting moments, entertains in its every frame, and is a gem indeed. Thanks to Matt for choosing it for me! http://www.spout.com/blogs/shaunhuston/archive/2008/8/14/34013.aspx Post By: ShaunHuston
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Post Date: 8/14/2008 4:00:50 PM
Body: I have two items at PopMatters today. One, a feature about documentary filmmaking that doubles as a review of the DVD for Strange Culture (2006), I've been waiting to see "in print" for awhile. The other is a review of the recently released Criterion Edition Mon Oncle Antoine (1971). PopMatters home.Read the feature on Strange Culture and documentary film.Read the review of Mon oncle Antoine. Originally posted on:Short-Circuit Signs
]]>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:00:50 GMTShaunHustonShaunHuston filmblog8/14/2008 4:00:50 PMI have two items at PopMatters today. One, a feature about documentary filmmaking that doubles as a review of the DVD for Strange Culture (2006), I've been waiting to see "in print" for awhile. The other is a review of the recently released Criterion Edition Mon Oncle Antoine (1971). PopMatters home.Read the feature on Strange Culture and documentary film.Read the review of Mon oncle Antoine. Originally posted on:Short-Circuit Signs http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/christmas/MemberTagFilms.aspxchristmas
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