Like the great silent comedians Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, Jacques Tati made his elaborate sight gags look as easy as tying your shoe. Yet unlike Keaton and Chaplin, Tati wasn't concerned with eliciting belly laughs from his audiences, opting instead for a chuckle or a smile. The general feeling one gets from one of his films is that of quiet amusement, and as such it's easy to discount the big ideas and themes they explored. That's especially true of his Oscar-winning Mon Oncle, a blistering satire of consumerism and modernism that David Lynch called "a masterpiece."
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