FRANCE · 1980

My American Uncle

Alain Resnais
French New Wave behavioral psychology corporate anxiety moral choice ambition and compromise human survival instinct
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Professor Henri Laborit uses three people's stories to discuss behaviourist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety: René is 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 is dying and must decide to let them reunite; and Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.

Year1980
CountryFrance
DirectorAlain Resnais
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