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Jacques Leduc
Born November 25, 1941 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada (age 84)
Jacques Leduc (born November 25, 1941) is a Canadian film director and cinematographer. Leduc began his career in 1961 working as a film critic for the magazine Objectif. The following year, at the age of 21, he was hired as a camera assistant by the NFB. Over the course of the next few years he worked under such filmmakers as Denys Arcand, Gilles Carle, and Don Owen. In 1965 he began working as …
Known For
Ordinary Tenderness · 1973Ordinary Tenderness
★ 9.31973
MovieDrama
A lonely woman spends the winter isolated and reminiscing about the past as she waits for her husband to return from a prolonged absence.
Stardom · 2000Stardom
★ 5.42000
MovieComedyDrama
A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
Geneviève · 1964Geneviève
★ 6.61964
MovieDrama
Two teenage girls go to winter carnival in Quebec City for the first time. Their ambiguous, tentative relation with a young boy brings both of them the sweet intensity and disillusionment of first love. One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s included in the anthology film That Tender Age (La fleur de l'âge, ou Les adolescentes). The three other sketches were directed by Jean Rouch, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Gian Vittorio Baldi.
Bad Girl · 2001Bad Girl
★ 5.52001
MovieDocumentaryTV Movie
The film investigates explicit representations of female sexuality by women, exploring the pragmatic and philosophical questions they pose, with emphasis on the ways in which the creation of women-friendly pornography confronts and alters the expectations of male consumers. Ultimately, Nitoslawska is concerned with how we comprehend desire, gender and identity, how we understand and represent its history, and the resulting affect on culture and human relations.
For a Song · 2001For a Song
★ 10.02001
MovieDocumentary
Welcome to the magnificent yet unheralded world of choral music. A world inhabited by exceptional beings who have the capacity to experience joy from a single musical note. Individuals who partake in remarkable efforts to unveil that dream of beauty which preoccupies each and every one of them. You may notice them singing anywhere and everywhere: at the wheel, in the shower, even in the kitchen. But above all, they sing together, men and women of all ages and various backgrounds, transformed by the radiant glory of song, and united under the banner of L'Ensemble vocal d'Outremont. Music is at the centre of their universe and gives them the intense feeling of belonging to the human race. Especially as the big night approaches and the collective dream of perfect harmony is but a breath away.
L'Émotion dissonante · 1984L'Émotion dissonante
★ 5.01984
MovieDrama
Mixing Cinema Vérité, animation, narrative fiction and stage theater, a look at drug use by the Montreal youth in the 80s, through various characters interacting in their own ways with drugs.
Nominingue... depuis qu'il existe · 1967Nominingue... depuis qu'il existe
★ 10.01967
MovieDramaDocumentary
A Docufiction about the twin realities of the Nominingue village in rural quebec, a poverty town turned vacation spot. where the older generation remembers the harsh conditions and poverty that afflicted them, while younger generations and tourist deal with ennui.
Forest Alert · 1999Forest Alert
★ 7.31999
MovieDocumentary
A strong point of view on the deforestation of Quebec's boreal forest in Canada.
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Stardom · 2000Stardom
★ 5.42000
MovieComedyDrama
A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
Second Unit Director of Photography
Forest Alert · 1999Forest Alert
★ 7.31999
MovieDocumentary
A strong point of view on the deforestation of Quebec's boreal forest in Canada.
Director of Photography
Ultimatum · 1973Ultimatum
★ 8.01973
MovieDrama
The story of a couple set during the summer before the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec and after it, and how they are affected by that fateful event.
Director of Photography
La main invisible · 2002La main invisible
2002
MovieDocumentary
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