My Uncle

Tati followed MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY with this impressive satire on modern gadgetry and the people who devote their lives to technological convenience. Tati has described his own comedy as "laughter born of a certain fundamental absurdity. Some things are not funny of themselves but become so on being dissected." It is this quality that Tati's films share with such satires as Rene Clair's A NOUS LA LIBERTE, Charles Chaplin's MODERN TIMES, and even Albert Brooks's LOST IN AMERICA. Tati again casts himself as Hulot, a lanky fellow with a raincoat and umbrella who stumbles through life. Content to live in his neglected quarters, Hulot is in direct contrast to the very mo...