
Gilles Carle
Biography
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.
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Acting (3 movies)
Directing (32 movies)

The Plouffe Family
1981

The True Nature of Bernadette
1972

The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl
1968

The Males
1971

The Angel and the Woman
1977

The Death of a Lumberjack
1973

Normande
1975

Fantastica
1980

Pudding chômeur
1996

The Heavenly Bodies
1973

Maria Chapdelaine
1983
The Rink
1963
The Big Swim
1964

The Merry World of Leopold Z
1965

The Other Side of the Law
1994

The Great Chess Movie
1982
The Machine Age
1978
The Big Swim
1963
One Sunday in Canada
1961
Un air de famille
1963

The Devil in America
1990

Red the Half Breed
1970

Blood of the Hunter
1995

Solange in Our Countryside or Very Little for Me, the Sun
1964

Manger
1961

Percé on the Rocks
1964

50 ans
1989

Moi j'me fais mon cinéma
1999

The Postmistress
1992

Skybolt
1986

Cinéma, cinéma
1985
Three Women
1964
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Solange in Our Countryside or Very Little for Me, the Sun | 1964 | Writer |
| Percé on the Rocks | 1964 | Writer |
| The Merry World of Leopold Z | 1965 | Writer |
| The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl | 1968 | Writer |
| Red the Half Breed | 1970 | Writer |
| The Males | 1971 | Writer |
| The True Nature of Bernadette | 1972 | Writer |
| The Death of a Lumberjack | 1973 | Writer |
| The Heavenly Bodies | 1973 | Writer |
| The Angel and the Woman | 1977 | Writer |
| The Machine Age | 1978 | Writer |
| Fantastica | 1980 | Writer |
| The Plouffe Family | 1981 | Writer |
| Maria Chapdelaine | 1983 | Writer |
| Skybolt | 1986 | Writer |
| The Postmistress | 1992 | Writer |
| Moi j'me fais mon cinéma | 1999 | Writer |
