Reviews

My son and I discovered Mon Oncle one Saturday in 1999. We could not decide on a movie to rent and ran across what has become one of my very favorite films. The atmosphere of this movie is a richly soothing delight, free of poignance which often characterizes and dilutes more modern comedy. Get hold of a copy and see it tonight. You will be in for a treat!

This movie is another of the many forgotten ones. The story line, though highly condensed, is faithful to the novel on which it is based. Both the novel and the film have relevant political lessons in spite of the writer's sanitized view of the communist party. I first saw this movie at a theater with my mother who presumed it would be funny. It frightened me since I was a second-grader who thought the atrocities were occurring in Florida because of the palm trees and proximity to the sea.