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movie review - Leolo

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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.