Léolo
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Léolo |
| Original title | Léolo |
| Country of production | France , Canada |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean-Claude Lauzon |
| script | Jean-Claude Lauzon |
| production |
Aimée Danis Lyse Lafontaine |
| music | Richard Grégoire |
| camera | Guy Dufaux |
| cut | Michel Arcand |
| occupation | |
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Léolo is a French Canadian film from the year 1992 . Jean-Claude Lauzon directed and wrote the screenplay.
action
The film tells the story of Léo Lauzon, a 14-year-old boy who lives with his family in a poor family in a house in Montreal . Some members of the family are insane and the boy is using his imagination to escape real life and be free from fear. He believes his beloved mother was not impregnated by his father, but rather via an imported tomato that accidentally got into her vagina, on which his Italian father ejaculated in the face of the charms of a well-built young Italian woman. From now on he calls himself Léolo . The boys around him are not a good environment for him either: while drunk, they molest a female cat. Léolo's sexuality awakens while he dreams of Bianca, a slightly older Italian girl next door. In the end, the disease, which is common among his relatives, catches up with him and takes him to the psychiatric ward. There he is “treated”, for example, with ice baths that are supposed to cure his illness.
The book L'avalée des avalés by Réjean Ducharme plays a key role in the film . The book was translated into German for the first time in 2012 ("Von Verschwicken entwolved", Traversion 2012).
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film : “The work of memory releases an intoxicating stream of images, uncontrolled, but of disturbing beauty. A relentless filmic self-therapy that also harbors monstrosities and moments of shock. "
- Fischer Film Almanach 1994: “With hearty images and poetic texts by the first-person narrator Léolo, Lauzon succeeds in developing an intensity that pulls the viewer under its spell. Léolo, that's Lauzon himself. In order to free himself from his childhood memories, he processes them in films. "
- In 2005, the news magazine TIME named Léolo as one of the 100 best films of all time.
- Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on July 31, 2005 , that the technical brilliance of the film was astonishing . The work would be full of passion . The characters are grotesque, human and personable .
Awards
- In 1992 there were three Genie Awards: François Barbeau for the best costume design, Michel Arcand for the best editing and Jean-Claude Lauzon for the best original screenplay. The film was nominated in six other categories.
- In 1992 Lauzon won the Special Jury Award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival .
- In 1992 Lauzon received the award for the best Canadian screenplay at the Vancouver International Film Festival .
- In 1992 Lauzon received the main prize Golden Ear at the Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid .
- In 1992 Lauzon was nominated in Cannes in the Palme d'Or - Best Film .
- In 1993 Lauzon won the audience award and best director at Fantasporto . He was also nominated for the best film.
backgrounds
The film was shot in Italy and Montreal.
This was Lauzon's second and last feature film. He died in a plane crash in 1997 while working on his next project.
Web links
- Léolo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Article on arte.tv
- Léolo at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Léolo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 16, 2019 .
- ^ Fischer Film Almanach 1994, in the Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ TIME
- ^ Roger Ebert, July 31, 2005, Chicago Sun-Times