Léolo

(1992)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 148 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Year: 1992

Runtime: 107 мин

Country: Canada, France

Director: Jean-Claude Lauzon

Cast: Gilbert Sicotte, Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno, Жюльен Гийомар, Giuditta Del Vecchio, Andrée Lachapelle, Denys Arcand, Germain Houde, Yves Montmarquette, Lorne Brass

Plot

The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon which his mother accidentally fell.

Young Leo Lauzon is torn between two worlds - the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits with his severely dysfunctional (and largely insane) family, and the imaginative world that he constructs for himself through his writings, where he's Leolo Lozone, son of a Sicilian peasant (conceived in a bizarre act involving a tomato). And his experiences of growing up (especially his sexual development) affect his response to both these worlds...