Léolo is a 1992 film by Quebecois director Jean-Claude Lauzon. The film tells the story of Léo Lauzon , 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 was impregnated not by his father, but by an Italian tomato, he rechristens himself Léolo, and begins to have sexual fantasies about his neighbour Bianca . 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. The film was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, TIME named Léolo one of Time's All-TIME 100 Movies.
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| Release date: | September 1992 |
| Directed by: | Jean-Claude Lauzon |
| Runtime: | 107 Minutes |
| Producer: | Aimée Danis, Lyse Lafontaine |
| Editor: | Michel Arcand |
| Cinematography: | Guy Dufaux |
| Screenplay by: | Jean-Claude Lauzon |
| Genre: | Comedy |