Léolo

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Léolo

1992,

1h 47m,

Comedy/

Drama

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90%

10 Reviews

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89%

5,000+ Ratings

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10 Reviews

89%

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Young Léo Lauzon (Maxime Collin) lives in a Montreal apartment building with his troubled and highly eccentric family, but he spends much of his time in his own imagination. Devising a strange fantasy world where his mother (Ginette Reno) conceived him with an Italian tomato, Léo attempts to cope with his unsettling reality by retreating into his mind, with his meandering thoughts often drifting to his gorgeous neighbor, Bianca (Giuditta Del Vecchio).

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 1, 2000

4/4

I felt alive when I was watching it.

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Hal Hinson

Washington Post

Jan 1, 2000

A disturbing, imaginative, beautifully realized film.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

May 2, 2022

4/4

Every degrading sight in Lauzon's film is balanced with the filmmaker's tenderness and honesty, resulting in a strangely affecting and personal work of grotesque art.

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Quentin Curtis

Independent on Sunday

Dec 8, 2017

It tries too hard, and Leolo's Gauloisey voice-over tells us too much.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Feb 25, 2008

B+

Caught the big picture in a strikingly fresh way.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jan 24, 2007

B+

French-Canadian Lauzon's disturbing and audacious comin-of-age saga, which opened the 1993 Toronto Film Festival, centers on a boy who actually believes that his mother was impregnated by a sperm-covered tomato in Sicily!

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Kylo R

Aug 25, 2017

Writer and director Jean-Claude Lauzon offers a rather gruesome and explicit drama, but with the benefit of an intriguing plot, a unique visual style and a beautiful script, this Canadian-French take on childhood could be a delight for the lovers of romanticism, and whether or not you're into its particular harsh point of view, the sole film's bizarre approach into reality and imagination should be enough to keep the viewer hooked in its premise.

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Synopsis

Young Léo Lauzon (Maxime Collin) lives in a Montreal apartment building with his troubled and highly eccentric family, but he spends much of his time in his own imagination. Devising a strange fantasy world where his mother (Ginette Reno) conceived him with an Italian tomato, Léo attempts to cope with his unsettling reality by retreating into his mind, with his meandering thoughts often drifting to his gorgeous neighbor, Bianca (Giuditta Del Vecchio).

Director: Jean-Claude Lauzon
Producer: Aimee Danis, Lyse Lafontaine
Screenwriter: Jean-Claude Lauzon
Distributor: Fine Line Features
Production Co: Flach Film, Les Productions du Verseau, Le Studio Canal +
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 16, 1992, Original
Release Date (DVD): Oct 25, 2005
Box Office (Gross USA): $547.3K
Runtime: 1h 47m
Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby
Aspect Ratio: 35mm, 1.66:1

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