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Mon oncle Antoine 
Directed by Claude Jutra Produced by Marc Beaudet Written by Claude Jutra
Clément PerronStarring Jacques Gagnon
Jean Duceppe
Olivette Thibault
Lionel Villeneuve
Claude JutraMusic by Jean Cousineau Cinematography Michel Brault Editing by Claire Boyer
Claude JutraDistributed by National Film Board of Canada
Janus FilmsRelease date(s) 
November 12, 1971Running time 104 min Country CanadaLanguage French Budget CDN$750,000 Mon oncle Antoine is a 1971 National Film Board of Canada (Office national du film du Canada) French language drama film. Québécois director Claude Jutra co-wrote the screenplay with Clément Perron and directed what is one of the most acclaimed works in Canadian film history.
The film examines life in the Maurice Duplessis-era Asbestos region of rural Québec prior to the Asbestos Strike of the late 1940s. Set at Christmas time, the story is told from the point of view of a 15-year-old boy (Benoît, played by Jacques Gagnon) coming of age in a mining town. The Asbestos Strike is regarded by Québec historians as a seminal event that led to the Quiet Revolution. Jutra's film, thus, is viewed as an examination of the social conditions in Québec's old, agrarian, conservative and cleric-dominated society that gave birth to the dramatic social and political changes that transformed the province a decade later.
Critical acclaim
The film has twice been voted the greatest Canadian film ever in the Sight & Sound poll, which is conducted once each decade. It has been voted TIFF List of Canada's Top Ten Films of All Time 3 out of 3 times.
This film has been designated and preserved as a "masterwork" by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada, a charitable non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the preservation of Canada’s audio-visual heritage. [1]
On July 8, 2008, The Criterion Collection released a special 2-disc collector's edition of the film.
On December 23, 2008, Roger Ebert put Mon Oncle Antoine on his Great Movies list.
External links
- Watch Mon oncle Antoine at NFB.ca
- Mon oncle Antoine at the Internet Movie Database
- Mon oncle Antoine at AllRovi
- Close-up: Mon oncle Antoine critique of the film and its legacy NOTE: This link is recovered
- Mon oncle Antoine article by Barry Keith Grant published in the June–September 2004 issue of Take One
- [2] Roger Ebert's Great Movies entry for the film.
Canadian Film Award/Genie Award winners for Best Motion Picture Canadian Film Award À tout prendre (1964) • The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1965) • Le Festin des Morts (1966) • Warrendale (1967) • The Ernie Game (1968) • The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar (1969) • Goin' Down the Road (1970) • Mon oncle Antoine (1971) • Wedding in White (1972) • Slipstream (1973) • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) • Les Ordres (1975) • Lies My Father Told Me (1976) • J.A. Martin Photographer (1977) • The Silent Partner (1978)
Genie Award The Changeling (1980) • Les Bons débarras (1981) • Ticket to Heaven (1982) • The Grey Fox (1983) • The Terry Fox Story (1984) • The Bay Boy (1985) • My American Cousin (1986) • Le Déclin de l'empire américain (1987) • Un Zoo la nuit (1988) • Dead Ringers (1989) • Jésus de Montréal (1990) • Black Robe (1991) • Naked Lunch (1992) • Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) • Exotica (1994) • The Confessional (1995) • Lilies (1996) • The Sweet Hereafter (1997) • The Red Violin (1998) • Sunshine (1999) • Maelström (2000) • Atanarjuat (2001) • Ararat (2002) • Les Invasions barbares (2003) • Les Triplettes de Belleville (2004) • C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) • Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006) • Away from Her (2007) • Passchendaele (2008) • Polytechnique (2009) • Incendies (2010)
Categories:- 1971 films
- Canadian films
- Quebec films
- French-language films
- Canadian drama films
- 1970s comedy-drama films
- Coming-of-age films
- National Film Board of Canada films
- Films directed by Claude Jutra
- Genie Award for Best Picture winners
- Films set in Quebec
- Quebec stubs
- 1970s drama film stubs
- Canadian film stubs
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