Le Mercredi Français – E Mërkura Franceze – French Wednesday
With the Embassy of France in Albania and in the frames of the Mercredi Français (French Wednesday), now every Wednesday, retrospective on Jacques Tati:
Screening on the 11th of May 2011 – 19:00 – Free Entrance
“Mon Oncle” (My Uncle)
directed by Jacques Tati
110 min – 1958 – Comedy
with Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Alain Becourt…
(French language with English subtitles)
Monsieur and Madame Arpel have a remarkably functional detached house in a very (perhaps too) well appointed neighborhood. Unfortunately, Madame also has a brother, Monsieur Hulot, who – no less remarkably – prevents her from functioning. There’s no malice involved, just an application that betrays his incurable lack of adaptation to life in an age that is blessed with so many wondrous gadgets. Hulot also harbors a boundless love of dogs, preferably stray ones, and of buildings that actually look like houses. None of this would be any cause for concern if it weren’t for the fact that the Arpel’s son Gérard likes to imitate his uncle and, like his uncle, displays an obvious distaste for the beauties of the industrial world. At the last possible moment, Monsieur Arpel, feeling slightly jealous and having failed in his attempts to employ him in his factory and to marry him off to their snob of a neighbor, finally manages to get rid of Hulot, But the damage is done: for the first time in his life, he has smiled at his son, for no particular reason…
Entrée Libre – Hyrja e Lire – Free Entrance – Eintritt Frei – Entrada Libre
