Gilles Carle, (July 31, 1928As fully funny, Carle had pleasure to always give himself one year less, and to let people think wrongly that he was born in 1929, "The Year of the Big World Crash": see on the Quebec French newspapers that many writers verified that, after his death, and corrected his year of birth for 1928 and his age for 81. – Also see o
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the translation of what her younger daughter, Valerie Duchesne-Carle, wrote on Twitter: "He was born in 1928 not in 1929. My father always missed this little oddity." – November 28, 2009) was a French Canadian director, screenwriter and painter. Gilles Carle, who was a key figure in the development of a commercial

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cinema, worked as a graphic artist and writer before he joined the

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in 1960. His innovative debut feature, ''La Vie heureuse de Léopold Z.'', tracked the adventures of a snowplough operator during a madcap Christmas Eve. But after the NFB rejected several of his projects, he began working independently. In 1971 Carle joined forces with

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to form Les Productions Carle-Lamy, which produced

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’s epic '' Kamouraska'',

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’s early features and all his early films. The quirkily paced, proto-feminist ''La Vraie Nature de Bernadette'' – widely regarded as his best film – and ''Le Mort d’un bûcheron'' eventually led to the more mainstream but graceful ''Les Plouffe'' and the epic love story ''Maria Chapdelaine'', both classics of Quebec cinema. In 1972 Carle won the

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for best Director for his ''The True Nature of Bernadette''. Carle was born in

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. His film ''

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'', celebrating the ''50 years'' of the

, won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. In 1990, he was awarded the Government of Quebec's

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. In 1997, Carle received a

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for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts. In 1998, he was made an Officer of the

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. In 2007, he was made a Grand Officer of the

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. Carle died aged 81 on November 28, 2009 of complications from

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at the hospital in

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. His companion of 27 years was the actress and singer Chloé Sainte-Marie. Quebec Premier

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described him, at his death, as one of Quebec's most influential filmmakers. He was entombed at the

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in Montreal.

Filmography

Feature films

*''Solange dans nos campagnes'' - 1964, short film (re-released as part of the 1964 anthology film ''Trois Femmes'') *''

The Merry World of Leopold Z ''The Merry World of Léopold Z'' (french: La vie heureuse de Léopold Z) is a 1965 comedy-drama by Gilles Carle that played a key role in efforts to create a popular national cinema in Quebec. The film follows the misadventures of its title char ...

(La vie heureuse de Léopold Z)'' - 1965 *''

The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl ''The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl'' (french: Le Viol d'une jeune fille douce) is a Canadian satirical comedy-drama film, directed by Gilles Carle and released in 1968. The film stars Julie Lachapelle as Julie, a young sexually liberated woman who g ...

(Le Viol d'une jeune fille douce)'' - 1968 *''

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'' - 1970 *'' The Men (Les mâles)'' - 1971 *''

The True Nature of Bernadette ''The True Nature of Bernadette'' (french: La Vraie Nature de Bernadette) is a 1972 Canadian drama film directed by Gilles Carle. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Fo ...

(La vraie nature de Bernadette)'' - 1972 *''

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(Les Corps célestes)'' - 1973 *''

The Death of a Lumberjack ''The Death of a Lumberjack'' (french: La Mort d'un bûcheron) is a 1973 Canadian drama film directed by Gilles Carle. The film was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. Plot A young woman (Carole Laure) from rural Quebec comes to Montre ...

(La mort d'un bûcheron)'' - 1973 *''

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(La tête de Normande St-Onge)'' - 1975 *''

The Angel and the Woman ''The Angel and the Woman'' (french: L'Ange et la femme) is a 1977 Canadian fantasy film, fantasy romance film directed by Gilles Carle and starring Carole Laure, Lewis Furey, and Stephen Lack. The film follows a woman who, after being brutally sho ...

(L'Ange et la femme)'' - 1977 *''

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(L'âge de la machine)'' - 1977, short film *'' Fantastica'' - 1980 *'' The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe)'' - 1981 *''

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'' - 1983 *'' La guêpe'' (aka ''Scalp'' - 1986 *''

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(La postière)'' - 1992 *''The Other Side of the Law'' - 1994 *'' Poor Man's Pudding (Pudding chômeur)'' - 1996

Documentaries

*''Dimanche d'Amérique'' (Short film, 1961) *''Manger'' (Short film Co-Directed with Louis Portugais, 1961) *''Patinoire'' (Short film, 1962) *''Un air de famille'' (Short film, 1963) *''Natation'' (Short film, 1963) *''Patte mouillée'' (Short film, 1963) *''Percé on the Rocks'' (Short film, 1964) *''Place à

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'' (TV documentary, 1967) *''Place aux Jérolas'' (TV documentary, 1967) *''Le Québec à l'heure de l'Expo'' (Short film, 1967) *''Stéréo'' (Short film, 1970) *''Les chevaliers'' (1971) *''Les chevaux ont-ils des ailes?'' (Short film, 1975) *''Les masques'' (TV documentary aka ''Carle – masques'', 1978) *'' Jouer sa vie'' (Co-Directed with

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, 1982) *''Cinéma, cinéma'' (Co-Directed with Werner Nold, 1985) *''Ô Picasso'' (Co-Directed with

, 1985) *''Vive Québec, cité française... ville francophone'' (1987) *''

'' (Short film, 1989) *''Le diable d'amérique'' (1990) *''Montréal off'' (Short film, 1991) *''Moi, j'me fais mon cinéma'' (1999)

Television

*''Un hiver brûlant'' (TV episode of the series ''La feuille d'érable'', 1971) *''A Thousand Moons'' (TV movie, 1976) (Created for TV series '' For the Record'') *''Homecoming'' (TV movie aka ''Lonesome Riders'', 1979) *'' Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe'' (TV miniseries Parts 1–4, 1983) (Parts 5–6 directed by

) *''Miss Moscou'' (TV movie, 1991) *''L'honneur des grandes neiges'' (TV movie, 1994) (Created for TV series ''Aventures dans le Grand Nord'') *''Le sang du chasseur'' (TV movie, 1995) (Created for TV series ''Aventures dans le Grand Nord'') *''Épopée en Amérique: une histoire populaire du Québec'' (TV series, 1997)

References

External links

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