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...English and deliver their rebukes to the French-speaking workers in a language the workers cannot understand. At Christmas time, Jutra shows the villagers' holiday frivolity instantly transformed by the mine owner's two-faced distribution of little bags of candy, which he throws from his horse-drawn sleigh to the children of the same Black Lake workers he holds impoverished...
CECIL STOUGHTON keeps colliding with Presidents, camera firmly in his grip. He did the picture of John Kennedy on Inaugural Day of 1961, waving to the crew of PT-109 on the parade float. It was his picture of Jackie Kennedy in the little sleigh on the snow-covered south lawn that became the President's Christmas card in 1962. Cecil was out at Atoka, Va., the Kennedy country place, on the weekend before Nov. 22, 1963. He took the pictures of John-John marching with a toy gun and helmet and saluting-a salute that the three-year...
Sooner or later the sleigh ride...
Then the eldest son of a mineworker dies suddenly on a farm far from the village. Benoit and his uncle must make the long trip by sleigh to bring the boy's body back to town. Antoine falls into a drunken stupor on the journey home ward, and the unguarded coffin slides into the snow from the back of the sleigh. Benoit, unable to rouse his uncle, rides to Black Lake for help and finds his aunt enjoying her own Christmas party in bed with the clerk...
...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 chronicle of a coming of age since Truffaut's The 400 Blows...