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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.
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The original title of the film is Mon oncle d'Amérique.
Deliciously witty look at three characters struggling with their worst impulses, as told through the lens of behavioural science by way of real-life professor Henri Laborit. On its own, the drama between the central characters would be engaging, but with the story pulling back to contextualise their behaviour through both their own personal histories and that of animal evolution, it becomes rather brilliant.