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Gilles Carle
Maniwaki, Quebec, Canada
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 comme…
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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.
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2005
Gilles Carle ou l'indomptable imaginaire
Movie Self
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1999
Moi j'me fais mon cinéma
Movie Self
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1997
Épopée en Amérique
TV show Director
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1996
Pudding chômeur
Movie Director
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1995
Blood of the Hunter
Movie Director
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1994
The Other Side of the Law
Movie Director
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1992
The Postmistress
Movie Director
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1990
The Devil in America
Movie Director
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1989
50 ans
Movie Director
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1986
Skybolt
Movie Director
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1985
Cinéma, cinéma
Movie Host - Self
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1984
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
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1983
Maria Chapdelaine
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1982
The Great Chess Movie
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1981
The Plouffe Family
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1980
Fantastica
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1978
The Machine Age
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1977
The Angel and the Woman
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1975
La Tête de Normande St-Onge
Movie Director
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1975
Midi Première
TV show Self
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1974
Spécial cinéma
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1973
The Heavenly Bodies
Movie Director
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1973
The Death of a Lumberjack
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1972
The True Nature of Bernadette
Movie Writer
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1971
The Males
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1970
Red the Half Breed
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1968
The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl
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1965
The Merry World of Leopold Z
Movie Writer
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1964
Three Women
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1964
The Big Swim
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1964
Solange in Our Countryside or Very Little for Me, the Sun
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1964
Percé on the Rocks
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1963
The Rink
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1963
The Big Swim
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1963
Un air de famille
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1961
Manger
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1961
One Sunday in Canada
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