MON ONCLE D'AMERIQUE (1980)

Cast

Plot

Behaviourist Prof Henri Laborit, playing himself, uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss theories of contemporary social behaviour within modern Western society; Rene has left the family farm to be a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing; Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover, Jean, is dying and must decide to let them reunite and Jean, himself, is an educated, controversial, career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.