DVD
Mon oncle Antoine = My uncle Antoine
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Widescreen version.
Languages
In French with optional English-dubbed soundtrack; optional English subtitles.
Performers
Jean Duceppe ; Olivette Thibault ; Claude Jutra ; Hélène Loiselle ; Lionel Villeneuve.
Publication Information
Saint-Laurent, Quebec : National Film Board of Canada 2008, c1971.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (104 min.) sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Portrait of a boy's coming-of-age in wintry 1940s rural Quebec. Follows Benoit, as he first encounters the twin terrors of sex and death, and his fellow villagers, who live under the thumb of the local asbestos mine owner.
Notes
Disc 2. The supplements: On Screen: "Mon oncle Antoine" is a 2007 documentary tracing the making and history of the film. Claude Jutra: an unfinished story, is a 2002 documentary by Paule Baillargeon, featuring interviews with Brault, director Bernardo Bertolucci, and actors Genevieve Bujold and Saul Rubinek. A Chairy Tale, a 1957 experimental short codirected by Jutra and Norman McLaren.