
35 — 'Playtime' & 'Mon Oncle' — Modern life in Tativille
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Film Review - Is This a Toaster?
There's sort of tension in the film is between these two worlds, isn't it? So the you-low, the uncle, sometimes comes to pick up the boy, sometimes given us a ride home from school. They invite him over to dinner, they try and set him up with one of their neighbours. They keep trying to give him a job. And as it turns out, he's not very good at any of them. He loses the first job by getting lime whitewash on his shoe - leading them to think that he's leapt on a table to look out of a small porthole window. It's quite complicated how that happens.
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