Léolo

Léolo is a 1992 film by Quebecois director Jean-Claude Lauzon.

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

• Gilbert Sicotte - Narrator (voice)
• Maxime Collin - Leolo
• Ginette Reno - Mother
• Julien Guiomar - Grandfather
• Pierre Bourgault - Word Tamer
• Giuditta Del Vecchio - Bianca
• Andrée Lachapelle - Psychiatrist
• Denys Arcand - Director
• Germain Houde - Teacher
• Yves Montmarquette - Fernand
• Lorne Brass - Fernand's Enemy
• Roland Blouin - Father
• Geneviève Samson - Rita
• Marie-Hélène Montpetit - Nanette
• Francis St-Onge - Leolo, age 6

Awards

The film was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

In 2005, TIME named Léolo one of Time's All-TIME 100 Movies.^[2]

References

External links

• Léolo at the Internet Movie Database