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Mon Oncle d'Amerique

starring: GĂ©rard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre, Nelly Borgeaud, Pierre Arditi
directed by: Alain Resnais

: Mon Oncle d'Amerique
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781567301854
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1567301851
Label: New Yorker Video
Manufacturer: New Yorker Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 28, 2000
Running Time: 123 minutes
Sales Rank: 94930
Studio: New Yorker Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 1980



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Following a pair of films (Stavisky, Providence) that were more conventionally narrative than his explosively experimental early works (Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad), French New Wave pioneer director Alain Resnais began a cycle of films beginning in 1980 (all written by Jean Gruault) that delved deeply into his philosophical and aesthetic concerns again. The first of these was Mon Oncle d'Amerique, starring GĂ©rard Depardieu as one of three middle-class characters undergoing great degrees of personal stress. Presented as a docudrama of sorts with some pulp-fiction qualities, these parallel tales don't really resolve themselves within their own borders but gain another dimension of subjective resolution when Resnais ushers in a real-life scientist to discuss certain kinds of behavioral triggers in humans. The results are actually very satisfying and witty for viewers who can see the overt psychological elements not as a smug commentary on the action but a means of opening the action to a viewer's subconscious experience. Resnais takes the bold step of creating a new kind of filmed story here, and largely succeeds. --Tom Keogh



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Good Resnais
I'm not usually that big a fan of Resnais' films, but this dissection of middle class France circa ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Who Are We?
"Mon Oncle d'Amerique" is a film that explores and tries to explain some very profound things. Who ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A wonderfully intelligent movie

Fascinating, off-beat piece of filmmaking, brimming with intelligence rarely found in movies. ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - The erratic behavior of the human...
Resnais' penchant for film as cognitive experience first and foremost here comes to the fore, although ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - What Film Should Be
This picture has compelling drama that ranks with the height of American film in the '40s and '50s and ... Read More

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