Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
(My American Uncle)
Country: FR
Technical: col 126m
Director: Alain Resnais
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre, Henri Laborit, Pierre Arditi
Synopsis:
A professor of behavioural psychology expounds his findings concerning the various layers of the human brain - consumption, gratification through dominance, flight/escape, inhibition - based on observation of rats; at the same time the director provides illustration/commentary via the interlocked stories of two men and a woman.
Review:
Superbly controlled entertainment for the intelligentsia, affording moments of comedy amid the somewhat depressing traps in which the characters find themselves. The professor, playing himself, makes for a reasonably benign if dispassionate guide, setting forth a persuasive case for the existence of a second unconscious, as distinct from Freud's famous one, and far more pernicious for the subject.
(My American Uncle)
Country: FR
Technical: col 126m
Director: Alain Resnais
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre, Henri Laborit, Pierre Arditi
Synopsis:
A professor of behavioural psychology expounds his findings concerning the various layers of the human brain - consumption, gratification through dominance, flight/escape, inhibition - based on observation of rats; at the same time the director provides illustration/commentary via the interlocked stories of two men and a woman.
Review:
Superbly controlled entertainment for the intelligentsia, affording moments of comedy amid the somewhat depressing traps in which the characters find themselves. The professor, playing himself, makes for a reasonably benign if dispassionate guide, setting forth a persuasive case for the existence of a second unconscious, as distinct from Freud's famous one, and far more pernicious for the subject.
(My American Uncle)
Country: FR
Technical: col 126m
Director: Alain Resnais
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre, Henri Laborit, Pierre Arditi
Synopsis:
A professor of behavioural psychology expounds his findings concerning the various layers of the human brain - consumption, gratification through dominance, flight/escape, inhibition - based on observation of rats; at the same time the director provides illustration/commentary via the interlocked stories of two men and a woman.
Review:
Superbly controlled entertainment for the intelligentsia, affording moments of comedy amid the somewhat depressing traps in which the characters find themselves. The professor, playing himself, makes for a reasonably benign if dispassionate guide, setting forth a persuasive case for the existence of a second unconscious, as distinct from Freud's famous one, and far more pernicious for the subject.