From the acclaimed director of Hiroshima Mon Amour and Night and Fog. From 1980, starring Gerard Depardieu, My American Uncle recounts the "case history" of 3 tangled lives: Ren (G rard Depardieu) has overcome his poor background to become a successful factory manager in France; Jean (Roger-Pierre) is a politician who star is on the rise but has started having an affair with Janine (Nicole Garcia), a struggling actress. Their lives are expertly dissected by narrator Henri Laborit, a real-life biologist/philosopher, in a fascinating exploration of the human psyche that earned Resnais the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.