Young Leo Lauzon is torn between two worlds - the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits with his severely dysfunctional (and largely insane) family, and the imaginative world that he constructs for himself through his writings, where he's Leolo Lozone, son of a Sicilian peasant (conceived in a bizarre act involving a tomato). And his experiences of growing up (especially his sexual development) affect his response to both these worlds...... (Full plot summary below)
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Young Leo Lauzon is torn between two worlds - the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits with his severely dysfunctional (and largely insane) family, and the imaginative world that he constructs for himself through his writings, where he's Leolo Lozone, son of a Sicilian peasant (conceived in a bizarre act involving a tomato). And his experiences of growing up (especially his sexual development) affect his response to both these worlds...
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| Washington PostHal HinsonA disturbing, imaginative, beautifully realized film. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzCaught the big picture in a strikingly fresh way. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyFrench-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! |
| Independent on SundayQuentin CurtisIt tries too hard, and Leolo's Gauloisey voice-over tells us too much. |
| User ReviewLynda MIncredibly magical. Poetic. Sweet. Striking. The imagery is a bit bizarre and the characters are darkly extravagant, but I loved this bittersweet coming-to-age story about a boy who really knows how to dream. I've seen it twice and I could watch it again anytime. |
| User ReviewAlexandra BOne of the most imaginative movies I' ve ever seen. Leolo' s world is full of emotional poetry and weird experiences ... or often imaginations of his own. No easy watching movie ... but really really worth it. |
| User ReviewVicente BBrillante, original, unica Una pelicula llena de una cruda poesia de vida, que parte de la fantasia hasta estrellarse en la cruda realidad. |
| User ReviewSamantha SOne of my all-time favorite movies. Felliniesque in it's presentation, sensitive performances and a haunting soundtrack. A boy's escape into his dreams so as not to face the disturbing reality of his life....heart-wrenching story. Brilliant director...a shame he is no longer around. |
| User ReviewAliya D"Because I dream, I am..." Leo, a precocious child growing up in abject poverty, concocts an alternative identity as an Italian boy (Leolo) conceived through an encounter between his mother and a tomato, freshly doused with the onanistic spritz of an immigrant grocer. Surrounded by a (sur)real family - a father obsessed with defecation, a sister who reigns as queen of the insects in the crawl-space below the family's tenament apartment, a bullied brother hiding from his environment in a steroid-enhanced body - Leo(lo) escapes into the fiction of his alternative life, aided by a kind stranger who deposits books at his door-step. At night Leo reads these fantastic stories by stolen-light, and later they seep into his dreams, where he is enthralled and inspired by the beauty of an older neighbor-girl he fancies his muse and future lover. "Because I dream, I am..." Leolo reiterates throughout this bitter-sweet tale of a bright mind besieged by the inequities of life. While punctuated with hilarious episodes of mock-heroism, and scored by a delightful Tom Waits soundtrack, the film subtly reveals the brutalities that imperil Leo's coming of age. While we hope, with the protagonist, that art can triumph over the hardships of life, the film refuses the sadder-but-wiser narratives of redemption that usually underpin this genre. The innoscence and wisdom of a child's perspective is relayed in all of its precariousness. If you liked My Life as a Dog, 400 Blows, or Slingshot, this film will blow you away! More bitter than sweet, Leolo is a coming of age story that dares to question the faith we put in the creative individual to convert our collective social failures into the necessary conditions of art. In doing so, it eloquently evokes the beauty and the danger born of an impulse to fight with no recourse but mental flight. Leolo employs the conventions of magic realism while staying firmly within a recognizable universe. And while it crafts its characters with humor it neither patronizes nor lampoons them. The film's true brilliance is its ability to convey the devastating limitations imposed upon its young hero by an unfortunate and uncomprehending family, while all along betraying their plight as similarly epic and heart-wrenching. I was 16 years old when I first saw this on late-night television, this is my second viewing; Leolo will haunt you long after you turn off the DVD. |
| User ReviewOli PToo good to be true, like a verse novel but a film. |
