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Mon oncle Antoine [videorecording (DVD)] / une film de Claude Jutra.

Christal Films, c2006.

Alternate title:

My uncle Antoine [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (110 min) : 2.0 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1971.

Special feature: Court métrage de Claude Jutra et Norman McLaren: Il était une chaise (en anglais avec sous-titres français).

Also published by the NFB/ONF under publisher # 153C 9906 294.

In French with optional English subtitles.

Réalisateur = Director, Claude Jutra ; une production de L'office National du Film du Canada.

Jean Duceppe, Olivette Thibault, Jacques Gagnon, Claude Jutra, Hélène Loiselle, Monique Mercure and Benoît Marcoux.

"The holiday season in a small Quebec village provides the basis for this bittersweet slice-of-life comedy, directed by Claude Jutra. Orphaned 14-year-old Benoit (Jacques Gagnon) comes to live with a foster family in a Canadian mining village in the 1940s - his Aunt Cecile and Uncle Antoine run a general store, and Antoine also serves as the local undertaker. Their Christmas celebrations are interrupted by news of the death of a boy at a distant home, which brings Antoine and Benoit out in a sleigh with a casket to retrieve the body. But the casket and corpse are lost in an accident caused by Antoine's drinking. Screenwriter Clement Perron, who grew up in a French-Canadian village, writes from experience with a poet's delicacy and sensitivity, and director Jutra (who also plays Cecile's lover in the film) has masterfully captured the comical foibles and small and large heartbreaks of his subjects. And Gagnon gives a hauntingly realistic portrayal of an innocent discovering life's funny and tragic turns. -Bruce Eder"--DVDEmpire.com.

Gagnant de 21 prix internationaux.

French-Canadian films.

Coming-of-age films.

Christmas films.

Films canadiens-français.

Films de réalisation de soi.

Films de Noël.

Jutra, Claude, 1930-1986.

Duceppe, Jean, 1923-1990.

Thibault, Olivette.

National Film Board of Canada.

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