My American Uncle

My American Uncle
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Alain Resnais
Produced by	Philippe Dussart
Written by	Henri Laborit Jean Gruault
Starring	Gérard Depardieu Nicole Garcia Roger Pierre
Distributed by	Gaumont
Release dates	21 May 1980 (1980-05-21)
Running time	126 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

My American Uncle (French: Mon oncle d'Amérique) is a 1980 French film directed by Alain Resnais. The film stars Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia and Roger Pierre.

Plot

The didactic film is built around the ideas of French physician, writer and philosopher Henri Laborit, who plays himself in the film. It uses the stories of three people to illustrate Laborit's theories on evolutionary psychology regarding the relationship of self and society.

René leaves the family farm to become an executive at a French textile firm. Janine leaves her proletarian family behind to become an actress who becomes involved with Jean, a well-educated bourgeois writer/politician. All three characters face difficult choices in life-changing situations that are designed to illuminate Laborit's ideas.

Cast

Gérard Depardieu as René Ragueneau
Nicole Garcia as Janine Garnier
Roger Pierre as Jean Le Gall
Nelly Borgeaud as Arlette Le Gall
Pierre Arditi as Zambeaux
Gérard Darrieu as Léon Veestrate
Philippe Laudenbach as Michel Aubert
Marie Dubois as Thérèse Ragueneau
Henri Laborit as Himself

Awards

The film won the Grand Prix and the FIPRESCI prizes at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Henri Laborit and Jean Gruault's screenplay was nominated at the 53rd Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay.

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: Mon oncle d'Amérique". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-28.

External links

My American Uncle at the Internet Movie Database
My American Uncle at Rotten Tomatoes
Mon Oncle D'Amérique at the New York Times

Films directed by Alain Resnais

Feature films	Hiroshima mon amour (1959) Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Muriel (1963) The War Is Over (1966) Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968) Stavisky (1974) Providence (1977) Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983) Love Unto Death (1984) Mélo (1986) I Want to Go Home (1989) Gershwin (TV, 1992) Smoking/No Smoking (1993) Same Old Song (1997) Not on the Lips (2003) Private Fears in Public Places (2006) Wild Grass (2009) You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! (2012) Life of Riley (2014)

Short films	Van Gogh (1948) Pictura: An Adventure in Art (Gauguin segment) Statues Also Die Night and Fog (1955) Toute la mémoire du monde Le Chant du styrène Segment "Claude Ridder" in Far from Vietnam

Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix

1967–1989	Accident (1967) I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967) Ådalen 31 (1969) Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) Johnny Got His Gun (1971) Taking Off (1971) Solaris (1972) The Mother and the Whore (1973) Fantastic Planet (1973) Arabian Nights (1974) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1975) Cría Cuervos (1976) The Marquise of O (1976) Bye Bye Monkey (1978) The Shout (1978) Siberiade (1979) Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) Light Years Away (1981) The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) Diary for My Children (1984) Birdy (1985) The Sacrifice (1986) Repentance (1987) A World Apart (1988) Cinema Paradiso (1989) Too Beautiful for You (1989)

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