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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

Ambition is the enemy of man. It stunts his ability to simplify the day. It is in simplicity we find peace.

—Allan Watts