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Konangal screens Jacques Tati’s Mon Oncle
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In Mon Oncle starring Monsieur Hulot, the characters live in an ultra-modern home. Everything is button operated and looks like a cross between a space station and a museum. It is all for show, of course; the dolphin fountain in th
e front yard is activated only when guests arrive, causing the porcine matron, Madame Arpel, to rush maniacally to her master control switch each time the doorbell rings. Jacques Tati’s favourite theme is enslavement to technology, or more precisely, how technology makes us do ridiculous things.
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For Tati, repetition was an inexhaustible source of comedy. Watching Madame Arpel push the same buttons over and over again is like watching a circus animal perform the same trick. Jacques Tati is one of the great comic icons of French cinema, whose works as director, writer, and actor are regarded fondly by audiences as well as harder-to-please critics. The screening is supported by Hollywood DVD Shoppe, NSR Road, Saibaba Colony. It is being screened on January 13 at 6 p.m. at Aruna Thirumana Mandapam, Saibaba Colony. For details, call: 9443039630 or visit
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