Wed, Apr 19 / 7 pm
Free Admission
Directed by Jean-Claude Lauzon
1992, Canada, 107 min
The coming of age story of 12-year-old French Canadian Leo Lauzon (Maxime Collin) born to a large family and desperate to escape the slums of his Montreal tenement. A dreamer, he renames himself Leolo and convinces himself that his mother was impregnated by a Sicilian tomato and finds refuge in his imagination and sexual fantasies.
National Canadian Film Day 150 is a coast-to-coast-to-coast celebration of Canadian cinema in honor of our nation’s sesquicentennial. Sponsored by Radio Canada.
