
You Are So Beautiful(2005)
Aymé Pigrenet, a recently widowed farmer, is eager to find a new wife to help him run his farm. Desperate, he seeks the aid of a local matchmaker who suggest that he go to Romania to find a new wife. There he meets Elena.


“Growing Up Can Be Painfully Funny.”
The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon which his mother accidentally fell.

Gilbert Sicotte
Narrator (voice)

Maxime Collin
Léolo

Ginette Reno
Mother

Julien Guiomar
Grandfather

Giuditta Del Vecchio
Bianca

Andrée Lachapelle
Psychiatrist

Denys Arcand
Director

Germain Houde
Teacher

Yves Montmarquette
Fernand

Lorne Brass
Fernand's enemy
Léolo is a comedy, drama, fantasy film released in 1992 exploring themes of sicily, italy, insanity, peasant, quebec, montreal, canada, daydream. Directed by Jean-Claude Lauzon, it stars Gilbert Sicotte, Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno. The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon which his mother accidentally fell.
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