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Mon oncle Antoine (1971)
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12 November 1971 (Canada) morePlot:
Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life... more | add synopsisAwards:
4 wins & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Magic Entrenched Hypnotically in Banal Authenticity moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jacques Gagnon | ... | Benoit |
| Lyne Champagne | ... | Carmen |
| Jean Duceppe | ... | Uncle Antoine |
| Olivette Thibault | ... | Aunt Cecile |
| Claude Jutra | ... | Fernand, Clerk |
| Lionel Villeneuve | ... | Jos Poulin |
| Hélène Loiselle | ... | Madame Poulin |
| Mario Dubuc | ... | Poulin's son |
| Lise Brunelle | ... | Poulin's daughter |
| Alain Legendre | ... | Poulin's son |
| Robin Marcoux | ... | Poulin's son |
| Serge Evers | ... | Poulin's son |
| Monique Mercure | ... | Alexandrine |
| Georges Alexander | ... | The Big Boss |
| Rene Salvatore Catta | ... | The Vicar |
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A critics poll held once a decade, since 1984, at the Toronto International Film Festival has named this movie the greatest Canadian film of all time 3 decades in a row. moreMovie Connections:
Featured in Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche (2004) (TV) moreFAQ
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Mon Oncle Antoine observes the craggy face of a homespun community from various angles, slowly, taking its time through the beginning, as it should, until we emerge from shattered (but banal) hopes and expectations, into swirling ecstasies of dreams and a heart-stopping revelation about the terrible enigma of mortality.
Aimless pans and zooms across the snowy mountainside comfort the mind and hypnotize the viewer. This restless camera work is personified in a fringe character who is equally the drifter, quitting his job at the coal mine and leaving his family to cut lumber, then quitting again and returning to the stark humanity of his boy dead.
A fetching old woman cheats on her husband and a young boy dies. Old things become new and new things die. Throughout is the snowy whiteness, as wonder-stricken as the history of cinema.