Mon oncle Antoine (1971)

Directed by

Claude Jutra

Genre

drama film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, Christmas film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 53 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 15-year-old boy named Benoit spends Christmas in a small Quebec mining town during the 1940s. He works for his uncle Antoine and begins to see the harsh realities of adult life around him.

melancholicslow-burnnostalgicwintryobservationalgroundedbittersweetintimate

What happens

Mon oncle Antoine (My Uncle Antoine) is a 1971 French-language Canadian drama film directed by Claude Jutra for the National Film Board of Canada. The film depicts life in the Maurice Duplessis-era Asbestos Region of rural Québec before the Asbestos Strike of 1949. Set at Christmas time, the story is told from the point of view of 15-year-old boy Benoît (Jacques Gagnon) who is coming of age in a mining town. The Asbestos Strike is regarded by Québec historians as a seminal event in the years before the Quiet Revolution (c. 1959–1970). The film is an examination of the social conditions in Québec's old, agrarian, conservative and cleric-dominated society on the eve of the social and political changes that transformed the province a decade later. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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