French Fridays on Watch the Titles: Tati’s Mon Oncle

In the third edition of French Fridays on Watch the Titles, guest curator Laure Chapalain provides us with some fascinating insights into the main title of Mon Oncle (My Uncle) – one of the masterpieces of the acclaimed French director Jacques Tati. The title sequence comments on the effects on the architectural modernization of post-war Paris. “Despite the simplicity of the opening sequence, its surprising radicalism succeeds in condensing the whole essence of the film into just a few seconds”.