Author: Maxime Collin

Brand: ALL

Format: NTSC

Release Date: 2002-08-20

Details: Amazon.ca Second and last feature film, after A zoo at night, comet Jean-Claude Lauzon, Léolo is a vigorous visual poem, never sentimental, always dense and touching. Between a monumental mother of tenderness (Ginette Reno), a father always there and always absent, a libidinous grandfather (Julien Guiomar) and brothers and sisters marked by fear and madness, little Léo (Maxime Collin) dreams. He dreams of Italy, of an invented family and improbable treasures at the bottom of the water. He dreams his life because, he constantly repeats: “I dream, therefore I am not”. Presented in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1992, Léolo caused a stir in Quebec cinema. Between the poetry of Forcier and the virulence of Kusturica, Lauzon knew how to create from scratch a unique universe in our cinematographic landscape. Its great strength lies in the images: shock images (the boy masturbating in calf's liver!), simple images (the mother and her son in the waiting room of a doctor's office) and strong images (the “birth” of Léo), which make up the real vocabulary of this gifted filmmaker. If the sequence of these vignettes sometimes appears disjointed, and if the narration, superbly told by Gilbert Sicotte, is often redundant, Léolo remains a vibrant work, a wonderful tribute to childhood. Like Les 400 Coups or My Life as a Dog, Léolo shows, under the cover of a fantasized autobiography, the birth of a great director, whose premature death left a great void in an often too wise cinematography... --Eric Fourlanty

UPC: 065935142874

EAN: 0065935142874

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood