Mon Oncle Antoine - Criterion Collection | 
 enlarge | Director: Claude Jutra
Actors: Jean Duceppe, Monique Mercure, Olivette Thibault, Claude Jutra, Helene Loiselle
Studio: Criterion
Category: DVD
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Rating:  5 reviews
Format: Anamorphic, Ntsc, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), English (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: CC1759DDVD
UPC: 715515030823
EAN: 0715515030823
Theatrical Release Date: 1971
Release Date: July 8, 2008
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Claude Jutra's evocative portrait of a boy's coming of age in wintry 1940s rural Quebec has been consistently cited by critics and scholars as the greatest Canadian film of all time. Delicate naturalistic and tinged with a striking mix of nostalgia and menace Mon oncle Antoine follows the everyday lives of both young Benoit as he first encounters the twin terrors of sex and death and his fellow villagers living under the thumb of the local asbestos-mine owner. Set during one ominous Christmas Mon oncle Antoine is a holiday film unlike any other and an authentically detailed illustration of childhood's twilight.SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES: New restored high-definition digital transfer supervised and approved by director of photography Michel BraultOn-Screen: Mon oncle Antoine a 2007 documentary tracing the making and history of the filmClaude Jutra an Unfinished Story a 2002 documentary that attempts to unravel "the Jutra mystery" featuring interviews with Brault Bernardo Bertolucci actors Genevieve Bujold and Saul Rubinek. and actor-director Paule BaillargeonA Chairy Tale a 1957 experimental short codirected by Jutra and Norman McLarenTheatrical trailerOptional English-dubbed soundtrackNew and improved English subtitle translationPLUS: A new essay by film scholar Andre LoiselleSystem Requirements:Running Time: 104 minutes Language: French / English Subtitles: EnglishFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/LOVE & ROMANCE Rating: NR UPC: 715515030823 Manufacturer No: CC1759DDVD
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Mon Oncle Antoine is Claude Jutra's masterpiece: A poignant, starkly honest, but humane film, shot through with authenticity from beginning to end. Realized with an unflagging artistic vision, Mon Oncle Antoine poetically portrays a young boy's coming of age, vividly capturing the 1940s Quebec mining town in which he lives. Along with winning many awards in the 33 years since its release, this film has also left a visible influence on succeeding generations of Canadian filmmakers like Atom Egoyan. --Dan Vancini
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 One of the best Canadian films ever made October 5, 2008
Ted M. (Pennsylvania, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film.
Mon Oncle Antoine is a film that has been regarded as the best Canadian film of all time. I can say it is one of the best I have seen also.
The film is directed by Claude Jutra and is about a teenage boy living in an asbestos mining town in rural Quebec during Christmas in the 1940's. He works for his uncle who is the town mortician. The film has great cimenatography and has some great scenes of the town.
The DVD has some good special features also on this double disc set.
Disc one contains the film with both the original French language track and an optional English dub, plus the theatrical trailer.
Disc two contains a 2007 documentary on the film's production, a 2002 biography of Claude Jutra, and "A Chairy Tale" a 1957 short film that Jutra co-directed with Norman McLaren. (This film is about a chair the moves around to avoid being sit on.)
This film is very good and I highly recommend it.
Best film from Canada September 29, 2008
S. C. Schweighofer (Vancouver, BC Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Quebec cinema has usually run circles around Anglo-Canadian productions, and this is the cream of the crop. Ageless!
Magique ! August 16, 2008
Quebec libre (Mantes-la-Jolie, France.)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Un film totalement magique, pour apprendre a aimer un peu plus la France des Ameriques !
Canada's Favorite Uncle Antoine. May 6, 2008
G. Merritt (Boulder, CO)
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
"There is one terrible thing in this world, and that is that everyone has their reasons"--Jean Renoir.
If ever a film deserved the Criterion treatment, it is this one. Quebec director Claude Jutra's Mon oncle Antoine is not only considered his masterwork, but most critics consider it to be the greatest Canadian film ever. Before making Mon oncle Antoine in 1971, Jutra worked with both Francois Truffaut and Jean Rouch, whose influences along with Renoir's are evident in this sensitive film. Mon oncle Antoine is a subtle film about profound self-discovery, and as a director Juras has the rare gift of drawing us into that discovery. Set in the rural, Quebec mining town of Black Lake City before the Asbestos Strike of the late 1940s (which resulted in the ministries of Education and Health), the film tells the coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Benoit Poulon (Jacques Gagnon), who simultaneously experiences the love of a young girl, Carmen (Lyne Champagne), and the death of an older brother, after his father (Lionel Villeneuve) quits his job at the asbestos mine, and then abandons his wife (Helene Loiselle) and five children at Christmas. Young Benoit lives with his aunt Cecile (Olivette Thibault) and uncle Antoine (Jean Duceppe) at the town general store. Uncle Antoine serves as everything from the town notary to the town undertaker. The superb film truly deserves all of the acclaim it has received. In many ways, with its emotional depth, it reminds me of another superb Quebecois film, Jean-Claude Lauzon's Leolo. Unfortunately, Jutra's career as a filmmaker was cut short. After completing Mon oncle Antoine, he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, which prompted him to drown himself (at age 56) in the St. Lawrence River.
The double-disc Criterion edition of Mon oncle Antoine offers an impressive number of extras, including a newly restored high-definition digital transfer supervised by director of photography Michel Brault; "Mon oncle Antoine," a 2007 documentary tracing the making and history of the film; "Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story," a 2002 documentary by Paule Baillargeon, featuring interviews with Brault, director Bernardo Bertolucci, and actors Genevieve Bujold and Saul Rubinek; "A Chairy Tale," a 1957 experimental short codirected by Jutra and Norman McLaren; the theatrical trailer; and an essay by film scholar Andre Loiselle.
G. Merritt
ONE OF OUR FEW TRUE CLASSICS September 29, 2002
ALAIN ROBERT (ST-HUBERT,QUEBEC)
22 out of 25 found this review helpful
MON ONCLE ANTOINE is about rural life and the coming of age of a teenage boy whose uncle is an embalmer.Slow moving but immensely rewarding;one can feel the director's tenderness for his characters.The film can be hard to appreciate if you don't speak FRENCH or don't know much about the aspects of rural life in QUEBEC and it's mentality..JUTRA the director, plays a little part in the general store.JEAN DUCEPPE who plays ANTOINE was a very well known actor in QUEBEC;he formed his own theater company in 1973 ... Along the way,the teenage boy also makes his sexual awakening in a funny voyeurism scene in which some women comes to the general store to renew their wardrobes.The film remains the director's most acclaim work.JUTRA sadly died of the ALZHEIMER disease in 1986.
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