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...UNCLE ANTOINE is a standout made in Quebec, an area that has not produced great films in the past, yet it is far more than a pleasant surprise. Director Claude Jutra and scenarist Clement Perron treat the central subject of a boy's early adolescence with greater exuberance and insight than most film-makers who have dealt with youth. Going far beyond the story of the boy, the film-makers have enriched their film with the energy that exists alongside poverty in backwoods Quebec. Within the loose structure of the film, vivid images which delight the eye become reference points...
French-Canadian director Claude Jutra has been making films for some time, but My Uncle Antoine is his first film to receive major notice in the United States. Despite its force, however, and despite its importance as a film, this Janus Films release has not been much shown outside New York City, where it first played about a year ago. There isn't much of a market for Canadian films here, certainly not for subtitled films from Quebec. The regular audience for foreign language films from Europe is not greatly attracted, since Canada has no deep-seated film tradition...
...Uncle Antoine. An outstanding French-Canadian film, directed by Claude Jutra, which shows a great deal of ingenuity. 1972. (Reviewed tomorrow) Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie. From the first scene of his first film (the surrealist Un Chien Andalou, 1928) Luis Bunuel has shocked -- even attacked -- his audience. He continues to surprise in this latest film, but by playfulness. Bunuel manipulates a half-dozen engaging characters in an ironic world of distorted time and confused identity, creating a witty and eloquent phantasma. Bunuel has become an aesthete, but he retains his expressiveness. At age seventy-two, he has become...
...UNCLE ANTOINE. Claude Jutra's lustrous chronicle of a boy's coming of age is the best since Truffaut's The 400 Blows...
...Director Jutra's attention wavers for a while between Benoit and the family of the deceased boy, and as a consequence the film becomes slightly un raveled before it reaches its climax. The movie is also overrich in incidents, since Jutra and Perron are too anxious to cram everything in. There is an excess of vivid but extraneous vignettes of village life, like the Christmas sleigh ride of the dour mineowner distributing stockings full of cheap candy to the poor children along the main street. Yet in spite of its unfixed perspective, My Uncle Antoine is indelible, the best...