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Mon Oncle Antoine
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Release Date July 8th, 2008
Genre Comedy Drama
Edition Special Edition DVD
Format DVD
Disc Aspect Ratio
1.66:1 (Vistavision )
Runtime 1 hour 44 minutes
Studio Criterion
UPC 715515030823
Number of Discs 2
Disc Sides 2
Production Year 1971
Plot French Canadian director and actor Claude Jutra enjoyed his greatest critical success with this evocative and loving (but unsentimental) look at a few memorable days in the life of a boy on the verge of manhood in a small Quebec mining community in the 1940's. Benoit (Jacques Gagnon) is just edging into his teens and learns two days before Christmas that his father, tired of dealing with the arrogant English Canadians who run the local asbestos mine, has quit his job and is heading off to a logging camp for a few months. Benoit works part-time for Antoine (Jean Duceppe), his uncle who owns the local general store and moonlights as an undertaker; Antoine takes the boy under his wing for a few days while the shop is busy during the holiday rush. Benoit helps set up the store's annual Christmas window display, spies on the most beautiful woman in town (Monique Mercure) as she tries on some specially ordered lingerie, finds his feelings for teenage co-worker Carmen (Lyne Champagne) changing from indifference to attraction, and joins his friends for a snowball raid on the owner of the town's mining operation as he contemptuously distributes gifts to the poor. But when Benoit joins his uncle to collect the body of a boy who has recently died, he confronts mortality for the first time and comes to realize what sort of a man his uncle really is. Mon Oncle Antoine won eight Genie Awards (the Canadian Oscar) and was honored at seven international film festivals, but it wasn't until the film was broadcast on Canadian television that it was widely seen in its home country; since then, a poll of Canadian film writers named it the Best Canadian Film of all time in 1984, and similar polls in 1994 and 2004 found Mon Oncle Antoine still at the top of the list. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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