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Recalling a time when the local general store was the crossroads of life, the film illustrates the way a young boy sees the world and those closest to him – first through the eyes of a teenager, and later, as events change him, through the eyes of an adult. In French with English subtitles.
Mon oncle Antoine. Claude Jutra. 1971 1 h 44 min. Le plus grand film canadien de tous les temps. L'atmosphère d'une petite ville minière du Québec des années 1940, la veille de Noël. Insouciante pour quelques heures, la population, rassemblée au magasin général, oublie sa pauvreté.
This film recalls such a store in a village in the asbestos mining area of Quebec in the early 1940s. The film presents a hundred-and-one vignettes of village life--all the bitter-sweet nostalgia with which a man might remember the events that thrust him into manhood. The action takes place on Christmas Eve--the one ….
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.
Sep 21, 2009 · Based on an autobiographical screenplay by Clément Perron, Claude Jutra’s Mon oncle Antoine (1971) is widely regarded as one of the greatest Canadian films of all time, ranking No. 1 in polls conducted by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in 1984, 1993 and 2004, and No. 2 in 2015.
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Production Company: National Film Board of Canada, Gendon Films Benoît (Gagnon), an orphaned 15 €'year-old boy, moves to a small mining town in eastern Quebec to live with his Uncle Antoine (Duceppe) and Aunt Cecile (Thibault).
