Maxime Collin Movies

This Canadian film, a sequel to the successful Matusalem (1993), begins with cops intervening during a fight at a kids' hockey game. Olivier (Emile Proulx Cloutier), who travels back in time each year on his birthday, is joined on the jaunt by his friends and oddball French teacher Ambroise Debuc de Beauchesne (Marc Labreche), They seek the valuable Matusalem diamond, but pirate buccaneers add a few complications to their task. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

Jean-Claude Lauzon's highly praised film tells the strange story of Léolo, a young boy from Montréal. Told from Léolo's point-of-view, the film depicts his family of lunatics and Léolo's attempts to deal with them. Not one individual in the boy's life is well adjusted. His brother, after being beaten up, spends the film bulking up on growth protein. The grandfather hires half-naked girls to bite off his toenails and, in a brutal rage, almost kills Léolo. As he witnesses his family decay around him, Léolo retreats into himself and the fantasy world he has constructed. In response to the weirdness of his daily life, Léolo creates a little mental mayhem of his own which Lauzon renders in an amazing series of free-form, surreal images. Eventually, this precarious balance of reality and fantasy cracks and Léolo is hospitalized after attempting to murder his grandfather. The score by Tom Waits underscores the narrative arc of Léolo's breakdown. On its release, the film won numerous awards including the International Fantasy Film Award for Best Director (1992) and a Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay (1992). ~ Brian Whitener, Rovi

When a group of children around the age of twelve decide they want some extra money for the summer holidays, they get together under the leadership Charles, who is used to getting his way, and start a house-cleaning company. At the same time another classmate has set up a video advertising company and is making an ad for the cleaners. Despite their hard work and good intentions, it takes more to run a business than a desire to make money and a good idea, as these youngsters learn as each participant's willfulness leads the enterprise astray in some fashion. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi