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movie review - Leolo

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 1997.02.14

A film from Montreal with that Canadian weirdness-for-the-sake-of-it and depressing French grittiness. Very nicely done. About a boy who grows up in a family from which he escapes by assuming another persona. He feverishly writes everything into his notes (which he discards) as he slides into insanity.

Recommended.

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl