Young Benoit learns about life very quickly from his uncle Antoine who serves as everything from notary and shopkeeper to undertaker in a depressed region of Canada's backwoods. Set in 1940s Quebec, MON ONCLE ANTOINE is an alternately tender and haunting coming-of-age film that came to be recognized as one of Canadian cinema's greatest works.

The print used for the Home Vision Cinema VHS version is from the Janus collection.

DVD Features:

Region 0
Snap Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - English
Dolby Digital Mono - French

Distributor Notes: The holiday season in a small Quebec village provides the basis for this bittersweet slice-of-life comedy, written and directed by Claude Jutra. Orphaned 14-year-old Benoit (Jacques Gagnon) comes to live with a foster family in a Canadian mining village in the 1940's and becomes a part of the comical foibles and the heartbreaks of a French-Canadian small town. Gagnon gives a hauntingly realistic portrayal of an innocent discovering life's funny and tragic turns. Grand Prize Winner of the Chicago Film Festival.

Source: Image Entertainment, Inc.

Jacques Gagnon: Canadian Actor - MON ONCLE ANTOINE
Jean Duceppe: Actor
Monique Mercure: Supporting Actress
Claude Jutra: Canadian Director

Claude Jutra: Canadian Director

"[T]his is a movie of great warmth and charm, beautifully photographed in natural light by Michel Brault."