Product Details

• Actors: Jacques Gagnon, Lyne Champagne, Jean Duceppe, Olivette Thibault, Claude Jutra
• Directors: Claude Jutra
• Writers: Claude Jutra, Clment Perron
• Format: Subtitled, Special Edition, Anamorphic, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: French
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Criterion
• DVD Release Date: July 8, 2008
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00180R04K
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,856 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Mon Oncle Antoine (The Criterion Collection)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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MON ONCLE ANTOINE - DVD Movie

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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ONE OF OUR FEW TRUE CLASSICS, September 29, 2002

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ALAIN ROBERT (ST-HUBERT,QUÉBEC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mon Oncle Antoine [VHS] (VHS Tape)

MON ONCLE ANTOINE is about rural life and the coming of age of a teenage boy whose uncle is an embalmer.Slow moving but immensely rewarding;one can feel the director's tenderness for his characters.The film can be hard to appreciate if you don't speak FRENCH or don't know much about the aspects of rural life in QUEBEC and it's mentality..JUTRA the director, plays a little part in the general store.JEAN DUCEPPE who plays ANTOINE was a very well known actor in QUEBEC;he formed his own theater company in 1973 ... Along the way,the teenage boy also makes his sexual awakening in a funny voyeurism scene in which some women comes to the general store to renew their wardrobes.The film remains the director's most acclaim work.JUTRA sadly died of the ALZHEIMER disease in 1986.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Canadian films ever made, October 5, 2008

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Ted "Ted" (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mon Oncle Antoine (The Criterion Collection) (DVD)

This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film.

Mon Oncle Antoine is a film that has been regarded as the best Canadian film of all time. I can say it is one of the best I have seen also.

The film is directed by Claude Jutra and is about a teenage boy living in an asbestos mining town in rural Quebec during Christmas in the 1940's. He works for his uncle who is the town mortician. The film has great cimenatography and has some great scenes of the town.

The DVD has some good special features also on this double disc set.

Disc one contains the film with both the original French language track and an optional English dub, plus the theatrical trailer.

Disc two contains a 2007 documentary on the film's production, a 2002 biography of Claude Jutra, and "A Chairy Tale" a 1957 short film that Jutra co-directed with Norman McLaren. (This film is about a chair the moves around to avoid being sit on.)

This film is very good and I highly recommend it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best film from Canada, September 29, 2008

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S. C. Schweighofer (Vancouver, BC Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mon Oncle Antoine (The Criterion Collection) (DVD)

Quebec cinema has usually run circles around Anglo-Canadian productions, and this is the cream of the crop. Ageless!