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CINEMA THURSDAY

Thursday 3 March 2011

6.30/7pm

This is the first of our Season 3 programme (which you can pick up at this weeks event), and we're in for a classic comic treat this Thursday. Tati's Mon Oncle will be the first in our two-part theme of Cinema of the Absurd.

For those who haven't been before, Cinema Thursday is all about appreciating unusual films out of doors amongst friends, and growing our city's love for cinema.

Bring blankets and chairs and a picnic and drinks (the bar will not open), and in this case the film is fine for kids too, so bring the whole family. If the weather is dodgy, we've got a Plan B indoor screening space, so don;t let any grey skies scare you away.

MON ONCLE (My Uncle), dir. Jacques Tati, 1958, France, 111 Mins

Monsieur Hulot rents a modest rooftop apartment in an old part of Paris, where traders sell their goods in the streets and young boys play games on unsuspecting passers-by. His upwardly mobile sister is married to Monsieur Arpel, who runs a successful plastics factory. The Arpels live in an ultramodern house, of sleek minimalist design, equipped with all the latest labour-saving gadgets. Having no job, Hulot occupies himself by taking his nephew Gérard, the Arpel’s son, to and from school.

The film is centred on the socially awkward yet lovable character of Monsieur Hulot and his quixotic struggle with postwar France's infatuation with modern architecture, mechanical efficiency and American-style consumerism. As with most Tati films, Mon Oncle is largely a visual comedy; color and lighting are employed to help tell the story. The dialogue in Mon Oncle is barely audible, and largely subordinated to the role of a sound effect. The drifting noises of heated arguments and idle banter complement other sounds and the physical movements of the characters, intensifying comedic effect. The complex soundtrack also uses music to characterize environments, including a lively musical theme that represents Hulot's world of comical inefficiency and freedom.

The first of Tati's films to be released in colour, Mon Oncle won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a Special Prize at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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