J. Léo Gagnon

J. Léo Gagnon

Perfil

J. Léo Gagnon

Filmes

Au clair de la lune
Alfred
A friendship between a good man with bowling as his only passion and a queer albino.
The Plouffe Family
Rosario le bedeau
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
Fantastica
In this Canadian made oddball mix of music and drama, an actress (Carole Laure) in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a factory from being built over an old-growth forest.
Cordélia
In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of her husband. When he is found dead, all of the suspicion is directed towards the liberal woman. She is judged more for her morality then for the crime she is accused of. Her culpability is still a subject of debate today.
Bye, See You Monday
The man with the dog
A French Canadian relationship drama based on a novel by Roger Fournier.
La Belle apparence
Panique
Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.
The Angel and the Woman
Father
Unable to keep her social commentary to herself and concentrate solely on her show dancing, the girl in this film is shot to death in the Quebec woods by people who don't want propagandizing about Chile to be openly voiced. She is discovered by a mysterious stranger, who heals her wounds and reanimates her by blowing on them. After he takes her back to his cabin, they fall in love.
La piastre
Rosaire Tremblay, the father
Robert decides to drop everything and go back to his homeland, accompanied by his daughter and a couple of friends.
A Pacemaker and a Sidecar
Ouvrier
In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.
Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…
The uncle
A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to Florida. But it won't be as easy as they think.
Normande
Le sculpteur
Normande St-Onge works as a clerk in a pharmacy and takes dance classes with the dream of being a cabaret dancer. Her mother, Berthe, has been confined to a mental institution by Normande's uncle, the wealthy lawyer Jean-Paul. But Normande, who does not believe her mother is insane, kidnaps her from the institution and brings her home. Also living with them is Normande's sister Pierette, who has asthma and a drug addiction, Normande's boyfriend Bouliane, who is unemployed and in no hurry to find a job, and a strange young magician named Carol she took in after he was kicked out of his home. All of these people depend on Normande in various ways and exploit her; Normande, desperate to be loved, is driven mad by the demands of her parasite family. When she receives an eviction notice stating that the building will be demolished and rebuilt into a restaurant, it all becomes too much for Normande and her mind retreats into fantasy to protect her from the harsh realities.
Before the Time Comes
Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills, but now she is too old to use them safely. When her husband Gabriel discovers the pills, he is distressed, since he wants a large family. The two of them discuss their differing attitudes and desires but come to no resolution.
Les aventures d'une jeune veuve
A widow must cope with her late husband's associates, crooked Japanese businessmen who want her shares of a rich Northern Quebec land and a Jewish con man who wants to get a hand of her mysterious synthetic fur coat.
Orderers
The Grocer
A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
Les « troubbes » de Johnny
Le cardinal
A pleasant fantasy about the setbacks experienced by a young man who loves costumes. His wife having left him, he goes after her to live some rather funny adventures.
Noël et Juliette
L'oncle
Pigs Are Seldom Clean
Hubert Tremblay
The true identity of an undercover RCMP narcotics agent is discovered by the criminals he is investigating and his family pays the price.
The Last Betrothal
Armand Tremblay
After another cardiac arrest, Armand knows he don't have long to live. But after more then 70 years in the same house, he doesn't want to die somewhere other then home. His wife Rose has secretly decided she will die as she lived: with him.
Kamouraska
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
Ordinary Tenderness
Widower
A lonely woman spends the winter isolated and reminiscing about the past as she waits for her husband to return from a prolonged absence.
Réjeanne Padovani
Georges Bouchard, Road Minister
The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.
Des armes et les hommes
Dirty Money
Oncle Arthur
This French-Canadian crime/action drama, which satirizes U.S. crime films, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972 and was well received. In the picture, perfectly ordinary people murder, steal, and torture one another with casual abandon in order to solve their everyday problems.
Far from the Sun
Léo
The six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of the iconic Brother André and are an incarnation of his values and characteristics.
Les mâles
Non-Quebecois may find this French language comedy somewhat inscrutable, as it contains many local references and in-jokes. The story concerns two incredibly primitive backwoods types. These men have just been released from prison for kidnapping the local police chief's daughter but still have a hankering for a woman. When they return to their campsite, they discover a woodland nymph whom they both bed and who drives them wild. Jealousy nearly destroys their relationship, but after they have come to blows over her, they discover she has left. This film is mildly pornographic, as it has nudity and depicts sexual situations.
Amanita Pestilens
Neighbour
A man obsessed with his award-winning lawn goes to great lengths to keep it looking great when mushrooms suddenly start appearing all over the yard.
Little Aurore's Tragedy
Le médecin
A little girl wittness the death of her mother- expressly killed through negligence by the woman supposedly nursing the invalid mother back to health. The coniving nurse in turn marries the child's father thereby taking the dead woman's place and becoming the little girl's stepmother. After unwisely revealing to the stepmother that she knows the reason for her mother's death; Arore is abused by her stepmother who hopes that in torturing the child she can keep her silent. The father, who is absent during the day farming the land, closes his eyes or refuses to believe his new wife is abusive when confronted by the sight of his miserable burnt and beaten child.
Cartas Envenenadas
Dr. Helier (uncredited)
É a estória de um médico em um hospital no Canadá, na província de Quebec, que recebe uma série de cartas. Posteriormente, mais cartas, todas assinadas por um misterioso pseudônimo "Raven", são liberadas para outras pessoas na pequena cidade canadense. A esposa do médico recebe uma carta acusando-a de ter um caso amoroso extraconjugal. Outra carta informa a um veterano de guerra, que fica chocado, que ele está morrendo de câncer, levando-o ao suicídio. Em breve, todos os habitantes da cidade estarão apontando os dedos para todos os possíveis suspeitos.
Séraphin
In the summer of 1890, Curé Labelle pushed for colonization. To flee Séraphin and the woman he loved, Donalda, Alexis got married and settled on a piece of land. Everyone joins forces to take their revenge on the hateful Séraphin.
Whispering City
Butler
After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.
The Fortress
After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.