Fantastica is a 1980 French-Canadian musical film directed by Gilles Carle. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.
In this 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. Written by Jack H. – IMDBRead More »
In America, the Devil, omnipresent, goes across ages and centuries nourishing fears and superstitions. The blistering devil of the catholic religion as now been replaced by is double, as bitter as the high-technology, globalization and mass consummation.
In this documentary film, Gilles Carle takes a in dept look at the stories and legends about the devil in the past and actual populations of the North America from a variety of angles and try to understand the importance of the devil in our collective imagination.Read More »
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Infatuated with her new charge, the young and innocent orphan Rose-Marie,, the pimp Desmond arrives in ‘Far West’ Borntown (fictional mining town of Quebec), accompanied by a procession of prostitutes to establish a brothel.Read More »
On Christmas Eve, snowplow driver Leo (Once Upon a Hunt’s Guy L’Ecuyer) races to clear the streets of Montreal and complete his holiday shopping in time for midnight mass. The feature directorial debut of celebrated filmmaker Gilles Carle, The Merry World of Leopold Z is an offbeat holiday treat that builds to a disarmingly resonant conclusion.Read More »
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The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.Read More »
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One 24 December, Léopold Tremblay, 32 years old, a snow removal worker, is busy with the snowstorm falling on Montreal. But he must also think of buying gifts for his wife and son, picking up his cousin returning from the South at the train station, and moving furniture for his friend Théo. At 11 p.m., the snow lets up and Léopold can finally go to midnight mass at St. Joseph’s Oratory, where his son sings in the choir.Read More »
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After 553 days of self-imposed solitude in the wilderness, Emile the poet and St-Pierre the lumberjack head for the nearest town to fulfill the demands of nature, they must find a woman. A nearly fatal experiment in kidnapping brings “the males” running back to their camp, where they find that a woman has come to them voluntarily. With civilization now safely out of reach, they try to set up a perfect, harmonious threesome.Read More »
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The demands of her family and the stress of daily life drive the mind of a woman into permanent fantasy as a way to cope. 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. But Normande, who does not believe her mother is insane, kidnaps her from the institution and brings her home.Read More »