Mon oncle Antoine
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| Directed by | Claude Jutra |
| Produced by | Marc Beaudet |
| Written by | Claude Jutra Clément Perron |
| Starring | Jacques Gagnon Jean Duceppe Olivette Thibault Lionel Villeneuve Claude Jutra |
| Music by | Jean Cousineau |
| Cinematography | Michel Brault |
| Editing by | Claire Boyer Claude Jutra |
| Distributed by | National Film Board of Canada Janus Films |
| Release date(s) | November 12, 1971 |
| Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
| Budget | CDN$750,000 |
Mon oncle Antoine is a 1971 National Film Board of Canada (Office national du film du Canada) French language drama film. Québécois director Claude Jutra co-wrote the screenplay with Clément Perron and directed what is one of the most acclaimed works in Canadian film history.
The film examines life in the Maurice Duplessis-era Asbestos region of rural Québec prior to the Asbestos Strike of the late 1940s. Set at Christmas time, the story is told from the point of view of a 15-year-old boy (Benoît, played by Jacques Gagnon) coming of age in a mining town. The Asbestos Strike is regarded by Québec historians as a seminal event that led to the Quiet Revolution. Jutra's film, thus, is viewed as an examination of the social conditions in Québec's old, agrarian, conservative and cleric-dominated society that gave birth to the dramatic social and political changes that transformed the province a decade later.
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[edit] Critical acclaim
The film was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 44th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[1]
The film has twice been voted the greatest Canadian film ever in the Sight & Sound poll, which is conducted once each decade. It has been voted TIFF List of Canada's Top Ten Films of All Time 3 out of 3 times.
This film has been designated and preserved as a "masterwork" by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada, a charitable non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the preservation of Canada’s audio-visual heritage. [1]
On July 8, 2008, The Criterion Collection released a special 2-disc collector's edition of the film.
On December 23, 2008, Roger Ebert put Mon Oncle Antoine on his Great Movies list.
[edit] See also
- List of submissions to the 44th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Canadian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
[edit] References
- ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
[edit] External links
- Watch Mon oncle Antoine at NFB.ca
- Mon oncle Antoine at the Internet Movie Database
- Mon oncle Antoine at AllRovi
- Close-up: Mon oncle Antoine critique of the film and its legacy NOTE: This link is recovered
- Mon oncle Antoine article by Barry Keith Grant published in the June–September 2004 issue of Take One
- [2] Roger Ebert's Great Movies entry for the film.
