mon oncle antoine observe the craggy face of a homespun community from various angle and slowly and take it time through the beginning and a it should and until we emerge from shatter ( but banal ) hop and expectation and into swirl ecstasy of dream and a heart stop revelation about the terrible enigma of mortality . aimless pan and zoom across the snowy mountainside comfort the mind and hypnotize the viewer . this restless camera work be personify in a fringe character who be equally the drifter and quit his job at the coal mine and leave his family to cut lumber and then quit again and return to the stark humanity of his boy dead . a fetching old woman cheat on her husband and a young boy dy . old thing become new and new thing die . throughout be the snowy whiteness and a wonder stricken a the history of cinema .