Gilles Carle

Directing·Jul 31, 1928·Maniwaki, Quebec, Canada

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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.

Film	Credit
Moi j'me fais mon cinéma1999 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Pudding chômeur1996 · Director	Director
Blood of the Hunter1995 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Other Side of the Law1994 · Director	Director
The Postmistress1992 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Devil in America1990 · Director	Director
50 ans1989 · Director	Director
Skybolt1986 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Cinéma, cinéma1985 · Host - Self, Director	Host - Self, Director
Maria Chapdelaine1983 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Great Chess Movie1982 · Director	Director
The Plouffe Family1981 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Fantastica1980 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
TThe Machine Age1978 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Angel and the Woman1977 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
La Tête de Normande St-Onge1975 · Director	Director
The Heavenly Bodies1973 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Death of a Lumberjack1973 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The True Nature of Bernadette1972 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Males1971 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Red the Half Breed1970 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl1968 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Merry World of Leopold Z1965 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
TThree Women1964 · Director	Director
The Big Swim1964 · Director	Director
Solange in Our Countryside or Very Little for Me, the Sun1964 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Percé on the Rocks1964 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Rink1963 · Director	Director
TThe Big Swim1963 · Director	Director
UUn air de famille1963 · Director	Director
OOne Sunday in Canada1961 · Director	Director
Manger1961 · Director	Director