My Uncle Antoine (1971)

Name: My Uncle Antoine
Rating: 3.8

3.8 of 5 from 45 ratings

1h 50min

Not released

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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 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 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.
Actors:: Jacques Gagnon, Lyne Champagne, Jean Duceppe, Olivette Thibault, Claude Jutra, Lionel Villeneuve, Hélène Loiselle, Mario Dubuc, Lise Brunelle, Alain Legendre, Robin Marcoux, Serge Evers, Monique Mercure, Georges Alexander, Rene Salvatore Catta
Directors:: Claude Jutra
Writers:: Claude Jutra, Clément Perron
Aka:: Mon Oncle Antoine
Genres:: Classics, Drama
Countries:: Canada