Upcoming Classic Film: Mon Oncle Antoine

THE HILLSBOROUGH CLASSIC FILM SOCIETY will present the French-Canadian film Mon Oncle Antoine at 2pm Sunday, December 15, at the Passmore Center, 103 Meadowlands Drive in Hillsborough. It’s in Canadian French, with English subtitles. There will be an introduction before the film and a discussion afterwards. As always, the film and the popcorn are free.

If you would like to attend, please sign up before 3 pm, December 13th, by calling the Passmore Center at 919 245-2015 or by going to our website:
hillsboroughclassicfilms.com.
The Passmore opens its doors and provides help for the Society on the weekend when they are normally closed, but they need to have some indication in advance that the audience will be large enough to justify the expense. Please sign up if you are thinking of coming.

Mon Oncle Antoine is set in the asbestos region of Quebec. The action takes place during Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in a period just before the Asbestos Strike of 1949 and nearly a decade before the beginning of the Quiet Revolution that turned Quebec from a conservative, church-dominated province, with a deadly asbestos mining industry largely in the hands of English-speaking outsiders, to a secular social democracy tending toward separatism.
Although it is not well known in this country, Mon Oncle Antoine is listed as the greatest Canadian film of all times in a number of polls, including three of the Sight and Sound polls, and has won a number of Canadian and international awards. Roger Ebert included it on his 2008 list of the greatest movies.