Mon oncle (My Uncle)

Mister Hulot's bohemian provincial home life is contrasted here with the modern, contraption-filled concrete and glass home belonging to his sister and her family, the Harpels, where Hulot's nephew, Gerard, is drowning in boredom. When Hulot comes for a visit, the gadgets get the better of him, in a seamless spectacle of electric switches, slamming doors and malfunctioning accoutrements. Tati shuttles back and forth between Hulot's quaint home of friendly, if mischievous neighbors and music-filled provincial cafés and the Harpel's surreal and cold ultra-modern lifestyle, creating an evocative and whimsical contrast. Mr. Harpel contrives to secure Hulot a position at his rubber tubing factory and Mrs. Harpel simultaneously conspires to fix him up with an eccentric neighbor. But Hulot's clumsy and gullible nature lead him into myriad tangles with the Harpels' modern lifestyle, climaxing in an intricately absurd garden party.