Mon Oncle d'Amérique - A Resnais

[moonfleet]

My American Uncle (Mon oncle d'Amérique) | BFI





Behaviour modification was all the rage in the 1970s, and Resnais builds his film around the behaviourist theories of Henri Laborit. But the three stories - Depardieu as a manager short on entrepreneurship; Garcia as a failed actress; and Pierre as a smug politician-turned-writer - could as easily refute as illustrate Laborit's theories. The film starts as a mock documentary but develops, via virtuoso editing, into an intriguing, emotional and often very funny film.


You lucky people

[Windthrop]

I will give this one a look. I like his films of Alan Ayckbourn's plays. Resnais comes over to Scarborough whenever there is an Ayckbourn premiere - I've spotted him in the audience a few times.