Courtesy of Criterion Collection
Screening
Mon oncle d'Amérique
35mm print from the French Foreign Ministry
Dir. Alain Resnais. 1980, 125 mins. With Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre. Scenes from the intersecting lives of three characters—a farm boy turned factory worker, a failed actress, and a self-centered intellectual—are intercut with commentary by the real behavioral scientist Henri Laborit. Fluid, witty, and engaging, this was one of the biggest commercial successes of Resnais’s career.Tickets to Friday evening screenings are $10 ($7.50 for students and senior citizens).
