DVD review: Léolo

guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk

Sep 25, 2008 20:00 EDT

This Canadian film from 1992 fits into the category of "my strange childhood"; but it is told in a gleeful and freewheeling style ensuring that its best scenes will bounce around the cranium when most coming-of-age tales fade. The film begins with our young protagonist's insistence that he is an Italian via a giant tomato from Sicily which has impregnated his mother, a grotesque but poetic idea that fits the film's style to a T. Writer-director Jean-Claude Lauzon's film seems to exist in a time all its own.

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