Léolo
Léolo is a 1992 film by Quebecois director Jean-Claude Lauzon. The film was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
The film tells the story of Léo Lauzon (Maxime Collin), a young boy living in a Montreal tenement with his dysfunctional family. He uses his active fantasy life and the book L'avalée des avalés by Québécois novelist Réjean Ducharme to escape the reality of his life. After deciding that his mother (Ginette Reno) was impregnated not by his father, but by an Italian tomato, he rechristens himself Léolo Lozone, and begins to have sexual fantasies about his neighbour Bianca (Giuditta del Vecchio).
Gilbert Sicotte, as the adult Léolo, narrates the film. The cast also includes Pierre Bourgault, Andrée Lachapelle, Denys Arcand, Julien Guiomar and Germain Houde.
It was Lauzon's final film; he died in a plane crash in 1997 while working on his next project.
Cast
'Leolo' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
¡Atchís! (2009)
Actors: Zoe Berriatúa (actor), Pablo Turégano (actor), Vanexxa (actress), Jesús Liedo (producer), Juan José López Angosse (writer), Sonia Capilla (costume designer), Juan José López Angosse (director), David Gutiérrez de Soto (editor), Alejandro De la Llave Daruich (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Short,Léolo (1992)
Actors: Denys Arcand (actor), Mikaël Baillairgé-Lafontaine (actor), Pierre Bedard (actor), Roland Blouin (actor), Pierre Bourgault (actor), Michel Bouthillette (actor), Lorne Brass (actor), Eric Brasseur (actor), Éric Cadorette (actor), Stephane Claude (actor), Maxime Collin (actor), Domenico Di Donato (actor), Gilles Durand (actor), Nick Fasano (actor), Richard Adams (actor),
Plot: Young Leo Lauzon is torn between two worlds - the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits with his severely dysfunctional (and largely insane) family, and the imaginative world that he constructs for himself through his writings, where he's Leolo Lozone, son of a Sicilian peasant (conceived in a bizarre act involving a tomato). And his experiences of growing up (especially his sexual development) affect his response to both these worlds...
Keywords: animal-abuse, attempted-murder, bathtub, bestiality, body-building, boy, cat, character-name-in-title, childhood-memory, coming-of-ageGenres: Comedy, Drama,
Quotes:
Narrator: Because I dream, I am not.Narrator: My grandmother had convinced my father that good health... came through shitting.
Narrator: That day, I understood that fear lived in our deepest being.
Intenta Amar
Las penas se van y vuelven a estar ancladas en un mar
Que suele callar tus lagrimas, tu devocion
Un pez que vence todo su temor
Para vivir, para existir
Y descubrirse cada dia mas
Intenta amar un trozo de ese mar
Inunda mi paz la inmensidad de esta verdad
No impedira que pueda nadar
Dentro de ti para sentir
Y descubrirte cada dia mas
Necesito tu calor
Necesito tu amor
El tiempo se va muy lejos atras
Y ahora estoy y tambien soy
El hombre que busca una razon
Para vivir, para decir
Que hoy te quiero cada dia mas
Necesito tu calor
Necesito tu amor
Y ahora que no estoy fallando
Siento que me estas matando
Necesito tu calor
Y ahora que te estoy amando
Nuestro amor se esta enfriando
Necesito tu calor
Y ahora que no estoy fallando
Siento que me estas matando
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