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David Lynch on Tati's "Mon Oncle"

So it's all about the sound as well...Tati's deliberate use of snippets of conversation and his treatment of the human voice as though part of the ambient sound.

Watch the clip and see how Lynch's choice of extract from "Mon Oncle" looks like.... er...Lynch.....

Travels With My Film Life: France... A Visit to "Mon Oncle"

Here I be in France.... 1958 and watching the half-mime world of Jacques Tati as he bumbles through his struggle with the modern world... on his bicycle... trailing his delighted "nephew" and a string of dogs and street characters. He be bewildered by his brother-in-law's modern house a la mode: all robotic, automated, geometric steel and plastic. And Bro-in-law is being chivvied by his wife to find her brother (Tati/Mon Oncle) a job in his plastic tubing factory. Tati's attempts at attending an interview and a day at work be much cause for Keatonesque mayhem.

I am a late convert to Tati and we do really enjoy this one. "Mon Oncle" is a satire on the craze for the modern and at the same time a fond farewell to a way of life disappearing under the bulldozers.

Jacques Tati's "Mon Oncle": Trailer