Jean-Claude Lauzon’s highly praised film tells the strange story of Léolo, a young boy from Montréal. Told from Léolo’s point-of-view, the film depicts his family of lunatics and Léolo’s attempts to deal with them. Not one individual in the boy’s life is well adjusted. His brother, after being beaten up, spends the film bulking up on growth protein. The grandfather hires half-naked girls to bite off his toenails and, in a brutal rage, almost kills Léolo. As he witnesses his family decay around him, Léolo retreats into himself and the fantasy world he has constructed. In response to the weirdness of his daily life, Léolo creates a little mental mayhem of his own which Lauzon renders in an amazing series of free-form, surreal images.
Director: Jean-Claude Lauzon.
Writer: Jean-Claude Lauzon.
Stars: Gilbert Sicotte (voice), Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno, Julien Guiomar, Pierre Bourgault, Giuditta Del Vecchio, Andrée Lachapelle, Denys Arcand, Germain Houde, Yves Montmarquette, Lorne Brass, Roland Blouin, Geneviève Samson, Marie-Hélène Montpetit, Francis St-Onge, Alex Nadeau, Louis Grenier, Richard Guèvremont, Éric Cadorette, Aron Tager, Luc Séguin, Simon Gosselin, Jacques Marcotte, Cat Lemieux, Nick Fasano, Jade Landry Cuerrier, Magalie Beauregard, Simon Lavigne, Amedeo Carlo Mangiu, Maria Petraglia, Salvador Giuffrida, Mikaël Baillairgé-Lafontaine, Gilles Durand, Louis Turcotte, Jacques Raymond, Jean Pilote, Karen Murphy, Patrick Leclerc, Fabiola Lamoureux, Domenico Di Donato, Eric Brasseur, Michel Bouthillette, Julienne Boily, Adam Richards, Senge Narongsha, Stephane Claude, Pierre Bedard.
Cinematographer: Guy Dufaux.
1992 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.
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Many thanks to the very kind Peter for sending me a copy of the rare English dubbed verison of this film.
One of the greatest z Canadian films ever. Insane that the 4K restoration has not been commercially released yet
The musical background was rather nice. Some of the photography was nice. BUT the story was POOR, POOR, POOR! To think people used a lot of photographic expertise to put out such a poor film is rather amazing.
Possibly the darkest “coming of age” story ever made. Leolo is special watch.
Forgive my ignorance, but I had read that the English dubbed version is in the uncut version. What about the others that are in V.O.? I see that the duration is the same and they have more quality. If someone could clarify it to me.
Thank you.
Greetings.
Hi Juan,
I haven’t seen the film but at first glance both seem uncut to me, you can compare them side by side to see and see if you notice any differences.
Film was originally recorded in 4:3 (1.33 aspect ratio). This version has an aspect ratio of 1.85 aproximately. And there are some other versions which have an aspect ratio of 1.66 out there also. I’m comparing the frames and it seems there is some cutting at the top and bottom of the frame.
I’ll leave this here in case it is useful:
http://dvdfreak.cz/freak.php?p=leolo&dz=0
The quality in your upload videos is superb, the best i’ve found so far. Thank you
Thank you!