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My Uncle Antoine (1971)
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Original name: Mon oncle Antoine
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business. Mon Oncle Antoine is Director Claude Jutra's masterpiece: A poignant, starkly honest, but humane film, shot through with authenticity from beginning to end. Realized with an unflagging artistic vision, Mon Oncle Antoine poetically portrays a young boy's coming of age, vividly capturing the Quebec mining town in which he lives.
Style:
social, art house, sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
Plot:
coming of age, small town, christmas, foster child, mining, uncle nephew relationship, youth, countryside, boy, funeral, infidelity, catholic priest, drunkard, grief, loss of son, death of son, dead boy, rural setting, children, journey, nude girl, little boy, christmas season, young adult, family relations ...
Time:
1940s, year 1971, 40s
Place:
canada, quebec
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