Mon oncle Antoine [videorecording] = My uncle Antoine / Glendon Films presents a National Film Board of Canada production ; an original script by Clément Perron ; adapted by Claude Jutra and Clément Perron ; produced by Marc Beaudet ; directed by Claude Jutra.
Jacques Gagnon, Jean Duceppe, Olivette Thibault, Lyne Champagne, Claude Jutra. Photography, Michel Brault ; editors, Claude Justra, Claire Boyer ; music, Jean Cousineau. Originally produced as motion picture in 1971. Special features: new, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director of photography Michel Brault; On-Screen: "Mon oncle Antoine," a 2007 documentary tracing the making and history of the film; Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story, a 2002 documentary by Paule Baillargeon, featuring interviews with Brault, director Bernardo Bertolucci, and actors Geneviève Bujold and Saul Rubinek; a Chairy Tale, a 1957 experimental short codirected by Jutra and Norman McLaren; theatrical trailer; new and improved English subtitle translation and a new essay by film scholar André Loiselle.
Summary:
In a rural Quebec mining village at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a fifteen-year-old boy, the aunt and uncle who are raising him and the people they encounter through their general store and undertaking business.
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