- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- July 31, 1928
- Place of Birth
- Maniwaki, Quebec, Canada
- Died
- November 28, 2009
Gilles Carle
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 …
Filmography
movieGilles Carle ou l'indomptable imaginaire
2005 · Self
movieMoi j'me fais mon cinéma
1999 · Self, Director, Writer
tvÉpopée en Amérique
1997 · Director, Creator
moviePudding chômeur
1996 · Director
movieBlood of the Hunter
1995 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Other Side of the Law
1994 · Director
movieThe Postmistress
1992 · Director, Writer
movieThe Devil in America
1990 · Director
movie50 ans
1989 · Director
movieSkybolt
1986 · Director, Writer
movieCinéma, cinéma
1985 · Host - Self, Director
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
tvThe Crime of Ovide Plouffe
1984 · Director
movieMaria Chapdelaine
1983 · Writer, Director
movieThe Great Chess Movie
1982 · Director
movieThe Plouffe Family
1981 · Director, Writer
movieFantastica
1980 · Director, Writer
The Machine Age
movieThe Machine Age
1978 · Director, Writer
movieThe Angel and the Woman
1977 · Director, Writer
movieLa Tête de Normande St-Onge
1975 · Director
tvMidi Première
1975 · Self
tvSpécial cinéma
1974 · Self
movieThe Heavenly Bodies
1973 · Director, Writer
movieThe Death of a Lumberjack
1973 · Writer, Director
movieThe True Nature of Bernadette
1972 · Writer, Director
movieThe Males
1971 · Director, Writer
movieRed the Half Breed
1970 · Director, Writer
movieThe Rape of a Sweet Young Girl
1968 · Director, Writer
movieThe Merry World of Leopold Z
1965 · Writer, Director
Three Women
movieThree Women
1964 · Director
The Big Swim
movieThe Big Swim
1964 · Director
movieSolange in Our Countryside or Very Little for Me, the Sun
1964 · Director, Writer
moviePercé on the Rocks
1964 · Director, Writer
movieThe Rink
1963 · Director
The Big Swim
movieThe Big Swim
1963 · Director
Un air de famille
movieUn air de famille
1963 · Director
One Sunday in Canada
movieOne Sunday in Canada
1961 · Director
movieManger
1961 · Director