Director
Gilles Carle
98 years · Maniwaki, Quebec, Canada · 28 films
Gilles Carle, OC GOQ (July 31, 1928 – November 28, 2009) was a French Canadian director, screenwriter and painter. Gilles Carle, who was a key figure in the development of a commercial Quebec cinema, worked as a graphic artist and writer before he joined the National Film Board of Canada 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 Pierre Lamy to form Les Productions Carle-Lamy, which produced Claude Jutra’s epic Kamouraska, Denys Arcand’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 Canadian Film Award for best Director for his The True Nature of Bernadette. In 1990, he was awarded the Government of Quebec's Prix Albert-Tessier. In 1997, Carle received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts. In 1998, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2007, he was made a Grand Officer of the Ordre National du Quebec. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gilles Carle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Best known for
Filmography 28
Gilles Carle ou l'indomptable imaginaire
2005 · Self
Moi j'me fais mon cinéma
1999 · Self, Director
Pudding chômeur
1996 · Director
Blood of the Hunter
1995 · Director, Screenplay
The Other Side of the Law
1994 · Director
The Postmistress
1992 · Director, Writer
The Devil in America
1990 · Director
50 ans
1989 · Director
Skybolt
1986 · Director, Writer
Cinéma, cinéma
1985 · Host - Self, Director
Maria Chapdelaine
1983 · Writer, Director
The Great Chess Movie
1982 · Director
The Plouffe Family
1981 · Director, Writer
Fantastica
1980 · Director, Writer
The Angel and the Woman
1977 · Director, Writer
La Tête de Normande St-Onge
1975 · Director
The Heavenly Bodies
1973 · Director, Writer
The Death of a Lumberjack
1973 · Writer, Director
The True Nature of Bernadette
1972 · Writer, Director
The Males
1971 · Director, Writer
Red the Half Breed
1970 · Director, Writer
The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl
1968 · Director, Writer
The Merry World of Leopold Z
1965 · Writer, Director
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The Big Swim
1964 · Director