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Mon oncle d'Amérique
Directed by Alain Resnais
1980•2h 6m•PG•★ 7.0
Comedy / Drama
Synopsis
Three very different people—an ambitious corporate executive who develops kidney stones, an actress turned corporate designer, and a farm boy rising in the textile industry—find their life choices, power struggles, and stress reactions explained through the laboratory behavioral neuroscience theories of Dr. Henri Laborit, complete with human actors wearing giant rat masks. Alain Resnais' Cannes Grand Prix-winning philosophical comedy starring Gérard Depardieu.
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DirectorAlain Resnais
WriterJean GruaultHenri Laborit
CinematographySacha Vierny
MusicArié Dzierlatka
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Runtime2h 6m (126 mins)
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DirectorAlain Resnais
LanguagesFrench
CountryFR
StudioAndrea Films • TF1 Films Production
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