Mon Oncle (1958) – Filming Locations
Comedy · Directed by Jacques Tati · Starring Jacques Tati, Adrienne Servantie
Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.
Where was Mon Oncle filmed?
- Paris, France, Paris – Monsieur Hulot's apartment building and the old neighborhood where he lives. The historic working-class Marais neighborhood provided the authentic shabby Parisian backdrop for Hulot's modest home and daily routines
- Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés – The Arpel family's ultra-modern suburban villa where Hulot visits his sister and brother-in-law. Tati constructed a purpose-built modernist house in this Paris suburb to contrast sharply with Hulot's old apartment, embodying post-war French suburban aesthetics
- Paris, France, Paris – Hulot's wanderings through old Paris neighborhoods with his niece Gérard. The working-class Left Bank neighborhoods provide authentic period backgrounds for scenes of Hulot navigating his outdated world
- Paris, France, Paris – Hulot's workplace where he attempts to secure a job in the modern industrial economy. Tati filmed factory and office sequences that represent the encroachment of modern commercial life into traditional Parisian spaces