Mon Oncle [DVD]

My first "Tati" film. Visual humour throughout, so speaking French is not essential but I think the whole experience would have been better if I did have some understanding of the French language.There's a certain nostalgia present and a sense of innocence, sadly gone from modern times.

I was just doing a little comparison test here and sure, the BFI dvd picture looks great... but the Blu-Ray is heaps sharper and the colours are brighter and more vivid. This really brings the movie alive. The difference between the warm glow of Mr Hulot's old-fashioned neighbourhood and the bluey-white sterility of his brother-in-law's ultra-modern house is more obvious than ever.(A favorite scene of mine is where the little boy's mother prepares his boiled egg as if it were a dental procedure.)Perhaps you are wondering if upgrading your old copy is worth the cost. I would answer in the affirmative. Not only is the picture better but we also get the English version of Tati's masterpiece ("My Uncle") plus the correct 1.37:1 aspect ratio.A minor quibble on my part. I find that I cannot select subtitles from the Set-Up Menu on neither my Sony nor my LG player. I can manage to get subs via my remote control on the LG but still nothing on the Sony. This might just be a quirk with my particular players but... yeah, I'd thought I'd better warn you on that one.

My mother's favourite glad she got to see it again

I was really looking forward to this Blu-ray release and had virtually given away my dual layer PAL speed-up SD DVD. I am so glad I did not. The colours are stronger across the board especially reds, yellows and blues and here is the problem. The blues are now just too strong and there is a very powerful overall blue cast that is just too much. Skin tones are excellent but whites are now blue-white and in the end I found my lighter SD disc more natural despite the many technical improvements on this new Blu-ray. The frame has been opened up quite a bit and the sound is crisp and much better than the DVD. The subtitles are another matter for debate however. They are very different and I did not care for them as much. They do not have the same flow and are in quite small white text whereas my DVD has yellow subtitles that are easy to read and a better translation. The English "MY UNCLE" has no subtitles and I did not like it at all as the English is really too pompous.The booklet is very interesting and well written but there are no other extras. My DVD has a delightful L'Ecole des Facteurs. What a shame as this could have been brilliant if only the colour had not been cast so blue. Others may not be bothered but caveat emptor.

The old being replaced by the new . It begins and ends with the sound of jackhammers , as entire brownstone neighborhoods are torn down and replaced by steel and glass . Noisy gadgets too are everywhere ; clicking , buzzing and whirring everywhere you look , and falling victim to the accident prone Mr Bean - like Hulot . I could have maybe been trimmed a bit but still a very funny film . The "new" world Tati is poking fun at here we take totally for granted now .

I've loved this film since I was a child and watched it with my family. I still love it as a pensioner. The humour is whimsical and gentle. The comments the film makes about the aridness of some modern living still speaks today. A comedy that can be enjoyed by all the family. Some may find the film rather slow for modern tastes but I love to savour it and don't find it tedious.

I ordered this film because I've seen it before - a long time ago and I love it. It's a wonderful story about the friendship between an uncle and his cousin. The uncle represents the 'good old times of France' (he lives in an old nostalgic 'quartier' in Paris) whereas the 9 year old cousin lives in a big modern house (representing the modernism of post war France).They visit each other and even though their worlds totally different, they have a wonderful friendship. The differences are well worked out in music, sound, colours, setting.Apart from that, it's a funny movie as well!

Jacques Tati at the top of his gamean absolute joy from start to finisheven the kids and doggies are great in itin reply to the first reviewer there are englishsubtitles on the french version but no subtitles at all on the english one they should come up automatically when you insert the disc the subtitle menu is a little confusing when its dark they're on and when it's bright they're off instead of the other way around hope this helps and you get to enjoy this fabulous film the way you want to