In keeping with Slapstick’s traditional celebrations of the great silent and visual clowns, we’re delighted to present French master Jacques Tati’s gentle and brilliantly witty satire on the modern world.

Though he made only a handful of films, director, writer, and actor Jacques Tati ranks among the most beloved of all cinematic geniuses. With a background in music hall and mime performance, Tati steadily built an ever-more-ambitious movie career that ultimately raised sight-gag comedy to the level of high art. In Mon Oncle – his supremely amusing satire of mechanised living and consumer society - slapstick prevails again when the eccentric, old-fashioned hero, Monsieur Hulot, is set loose in Villa Arpel - the geometric, oppressively ultramodern home of his brother-in-law, and an antiseptic plastic hose factory where he gets a job.

Full of unforgettable comic moments, this Oscar®-winning classic is a deft, elusive picture that’s full of heart and a true comic masterpiece from one of cinema’s greatest treasures.

With and introduction by presenter Chris Serle.

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