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However, on the way home Benoît encourages the horse to run as quickly as possible causing the coffin to fall off the sleigh.
Fandango FANALERT® ... Art Director, Set Designer Denis Boucher Art Director, Set Designer Jean Cousineau Composer (Music Score) Marc Beaudet Producer Michel Brault Cinematographer . Mon Oncle Antoine (1971) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.
Eventually they make it back to the Poulin household where they find the entire Poulin family, including Jos, the father, who had been away working, around the coffin mourning the loss of Marcel. On December 24 he begins work, setting up the store display much to the delight of the town and flirting with Carmen, the young girl whom his uncle and aunt employ, and treat as an adopted child. Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Directed by Claude Jutra • 1971 • Canada Starring Jean Duceppe, Jacques Gagnon, Oliviette Thibault Claude Jutra’s evocative portrait of a boy’s coming of age in wintry 1940s rural Quebec has been consistently cited by critics and scholars as the greatest Canadian film of all time.
Jutra's film is an examination of the social conditions in Québec's old, agrarian, conservative and Madame Jos Poulin's eldest son, Marcel, dies that day and she places a call to the store asking if Antoine can come to take care of the body. After they load the body into a coffin they prepare to take it home. Although the film begins earlier in the year, everything comes to a focus beginning on the morning of Christmas Eve and closing on the dawn of Christmas. Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business. 49 of 52 people found this review helpful. An ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.
Angry with Antoine, Benoît manages to get him back in the sleigh and returns home.
With Jacques Gagnon, Lyne Champagne, Jean Duceppe, Olivette Thibault. He works at the town general store belonging to his aunt Cécile and his uncle, Antoine, who is also the town undertaker. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing Mon oncle Antoine near you. Quebec, the 1830s and 1840s. For the first time Benoît is allowed to go with him.
The key action in Claude Jutra's "Mon Oncle Antoine" (1971) takes place over a period of 24 hours in a Quebec mining town.
He runs up the stairs to get help from his aunt and discovers her embracing Fernand, the help, in her nightgown. He tries to get Antoine to help put the coffin back on the sleigh; however, Antoine who has been steadily drinking throughout the day is unable to lift the coffin. Talk about couples goals! The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior's endurance and battle of its menace. Looking for something to watch?
Realizing what has happened Fernand takes Benoît out in the sleigh to look for the body. A group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself. Traumatized by seeing his aunt and Fernand together, Benoît is no help in remembering where the coffin fell off the sleigh. Directed by Claude Jutra. A woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. This film has been designated and preserved as a 'masterwork' by the The film was selected as the Canadian entry for the This film has won numerous awards, in Canada and internationally, including Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
He confesses to Benoît that he hates dealing with the dead bodies and that he is miserable in his life, wishing that he had achieved his dream of owning a hotel in the U.S. as he had wanted to. Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.Carmen is scattering fake snow over the nativity scene