Mon oncle d'Amérique

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Mon oncle d'Amérique

Directed by	Alain Resnais
Produced by	Philippe Dussart
Written by	Henri Laborit, Jean Gruault
Starring	Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre
Distributed by	New World Pictures
Release date(s)	17 December 1980 (USA)
Running time	125 min
Language	French
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Mon oncle d'Amérique, sometimes released as My American Uncle, is a 1980 French film directed by Alain Resnais.

[edit] Plot

This didactic film is built around the ideas of French physician, writer and philosopher Henri Laborit, who plays himself in the film. It uses the stories of three people to illustrate Laborit's theories on evolutionary psychology regarding the relationship of self and society.

René (Gérard Depardieu) leaves the family farm to become an executive at a French textile firm. Janine (Nicole Garcia) leaves her proletarian family behind to become an actress/stylist who becomes involved with Jean (Roger Pierre), a well-educated bourgeois writer/politician. All three characters face difficult choices in life-changing situations that are designed to illuminate Laborit's ideas.