Jacques Leduc

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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 TendernessOrdinary Tenderness · 1973
Ordinary 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.
StardomStardom · 2000
Stardom
5.42000
MovieComedyDrama
A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
GenevièveGeneviève · 1964
Geneviève
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 GirlBad Girl · 2001
Bad 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 SongFor a Song · 2001
For 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 dissonanteL'Émotion dissonante · 1984
L'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 existeNominingue... depuis qu'il existe · 1967
Nominingue... 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 AlertForest Alert · 1999
Forest Alert
7.31999
MovieDocumentary
A strong point of view on the deforestation of Quebec's boreal forest in Canada.

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For a SongFor a Song · 2001
For 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.

Director of Photography

Le temps qu'il faitLe temps qu'il fait · 1997
Le temps qu'il fait
1997
MovieDocumentary
Nestor, Lei, Pierrette, Mohamed, Hafida, Marius, Marc, Galina, Genady, Mike and Lala: through their presence, Le temps qu’il fait weaves a mosaic of stories in which dreams and disappointments, hopes and worries intertwine with the life that is before them. In counterpoint, there are these new landscapes of financial centers, abandoned industrial spaces and wasteland from which we hear the echo of speeches that call to take the train of the new economy. By their simple attachment to a profession which gives them a living, the men and women of the film put up resistance to these slogans. Little by little, a radical rupture is emerging between economic thought and the movement of life. A break that shapes the present time.

Director of Photography