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Gilles Carle

Gilles Carle

Quebec film director, screenwriter and producer
July 31, 1928 (November 28, 2009)
Can. 1998. Documentary by Gilles Carle. Filmmaker Gilles Carle recounts his childhood in Abitibi and the main stages of his career.
Runtime: 75 min.

Bread Pudding

V.O.: Pudding chômeur

Blood of the Hunter

V.O.: Le Sang du chasseur
Runtime: 93 min.

The Other Side of the Law

V.O.: L'Honneur des grandes neiges
Fr. 1994. Adventures by Gilles Carle with Yves Rénier, Xavier Deluc, Marc de Jonge. A vigilante on the run entrusts his young son to a friend living in a remote village in the Canadian North.

The Postmistress

V.O.: La Postière
Can. 1992. Mores comedy by Gilles Carle with Chloé Sainte-Marie, Nicolas François Rives, Steve Gendron. In 1935, in a Quebec village, a young boy observes with curiosity the small intrigues of the adult world.
Runtime: 95 min.
Can. 1991. Satire by Gilles Carle with Renée Faure, Chloé Sainte-Marie, Michel Côté. Roommates in a Moscow apartment welcome one of their own who has been living in Canada for fifteen years.

Devil in America

V.O.: Le Diable d'Amérique
Can. 1990. Documentary by Gilles Carle.
Runtime: 75 min.
Can. 1988. Documentary by Gilles Carle with Chloé Sainte-Marie, Renée Maheux, Gabrielle Daigneault. Portrayal of the various aspects of Quebec City
Runtime: 83 min.
Can. 1986. Drama by Arthur Lamothe with Jacques Godin, Ariane Frédérique, Marthe Mercure. After 30 years of absence, a man and his granddaughter return to the place of his youth in search of an old friend.
Runtime: 84 min.
Can. 1986. Mores drama by Gilles Carle with Chloé Sainte-Marie, Warren Peace, Donald Pilon. A woman seeks revenge on a millionaire who caused the death of her two children.
Runtime: 98 min.
Can. 1985. Documentary by Werner Nold, Gilles Carle. A look back at 25 years of cinema at the National Film Board.
Can. 1985. Documentary by Gilles Carle. A tribute to the famous Spanish painter on the occasion of an exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Can. 1983. Mores drama by Gilles Carle with Carole Laure, Nick Mancuso, Yoland Guérard. The daughter of a colonizer is courted by three men of different characters.
Runtime: 112 min.
Can. 1982. Documentary by Gilles Carle. Insights into the distinct context of international chess competitions.
Runtime: 80 min.

The Plouffe Family

V.O.: Les Plouffe
Can. 1981. Dramatic comedy by Gilles Carle with Gabriel Arcand, Émile Genest, Pierre Curzi. In the late 1930s, members of a family living in Quebec City's lower town face various situations.
Runtime: 180 min.
Can. 1980. Musical by Gilles Carle with Carole Laure, Serge Reggiani, Lewis Furey.
Runtime: 110 min.
Can. 1977. Fantasy by Gilles Carle with Carole Laure, Lewis Furey, Jean Comtois. A mysterious individual collects the corpse of a murdered young woman and brings her back to life.
Runtime: 87 min.

The Head of Normande St-Onge

V.O.: La Tête de Normande St-Onge
Can. 1975. Psychological drama by Gilles Carle with Carole Laure, Renée Girard, Raymond Cloutier. A young girl smuggles her mother out of the hospital and into her home.
Runtime: 115 min.

Death of a Lumberjack

V.O.: La Mort d'un bûcheron
Can. 1973. Dramatic comedy by Gilles Carle with Carole Laure, Daniel Pilon, Denise Filiatrault. A young girl who has come to Montreal to find her father is exploited by a cabaret owner.
Runtime: 114 min.

The Heavenly Bodies

V.O.: Les Corps célestes
Can. 1973. Satire by Gilles Carle with Donald Pilon, Carole Laure, Jacques Dufilho. The installation of a brothel in a Northwestern Quebec mining town in 1938.
Runtime: 105 min.

The True Nature of Bernadette

V.O.: La Vraie Nature de Bernadette
Can. 1972. Dramatic comedy by Gilles Carle with Micheline Lanctôt, Donald Pilon, Reynald Bouchard. A woman imbued with naturalistic and libertarian theories leaves her home to live in the countryside with her young son.
Runtime: 96 min.

The Males

V.O.: Les Mâles
Can. 1971. Mores comedy by Gilles Carle with Donald Pilon, René Blouin, Andrée Pelletier. A student and a lumberjack, who have been living in the woods for a year and a half, decide to kidnap a woman from the nearest village.
Runtime: 111 min.
Can. 1970. Social drama by Gilles Carle with Daniel Pilon, Geneviève Deloir, Gratien Gélinas. A man of mixed heritage, suspected of murdering his half-sister, escapes into the wilderness and then returns to punish the real culprit.
Runtime: 94 min.

The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl

V.O.: Le Viol d'une jeune fille douce
Can. 1968. Satire by Gilles Carle with Julie Lachapelle, Daniel Pilon, Katerine Mousseau. A young girl awaits the birth of a child without knowing who the father is.
Runtime: 81 min.

The Merry World of Leopold Z

V.O.: La Vie heureuse de Léopold Z
Can. 1965. Comedy by Gilles Carle with Guy L'Ecuyer, Paul Hébert, Suzanne Valéry. On Christmas Eve, a snow plowman struggles to complete his gift shopping in the middle of a snowstorm.
Runtime: 69 min.

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