Gilles Carle

Gilles Carle
Born (1928-07-31)July 31, 1928
Maniwaki, Québec
Died November 28, 2009(2009-11-28) (aged 81)
Granby, Québec
Occupation Filmmaker (writer, director, producer)
Years active 1965–1999
Partner(s) Chloé Sainte-Marie

Gilles Carle, OC GOQ (July 31, 1928[1] – November 28, 2009) was a French Canadian director, screenwriter and painter.

He joined the NFB in 1960, where his credits included La vie heureuse de Léopold Z. But after the NFB rejected several of Carle's projects, he began working independently.[2] In 1972 Carle won the Canadian Film Award for best Director for his The True Nature of Bernadette.

Carle was born in Maniwaki, Quebec. His film 50 ans, celebrating the 50 years of the National Film Board of Canada, won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.[3]

In 1990, he was awarded the Government of Quebec's Prix Albert-Tessier.[4] In 1997, Carle received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.[5] In 1998, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.[6] In 2007, he was made a Grand Officer of the Ordre National du Quebec.[7]

Carle died aged 81 on November 28, 2009 of complications from Parkinson's disease at the hospital in Granby, Quebec. He is survived by his son and three daughters as well as his companion of 27 years, Chloé Sainte-Marie. Quebec Premier Jean Charest described him, at his death, as one of Quebec's most influential filmmakers.[8]

Filmography

Feature films

Documentaries

Television

References

  1. ↑ As fully funny, Carle had pleasure to always give himself one year less, and to let people think wrongly that he was born in 1929, "The Year of the Big World Crash": see on the Quebec French newspapers that many writers verified that, after his death, and corrected his year of birth for 1928 and his age for 81. – Also see on Cinememorial the translation of what her younger daughter, Valerie Duchesne-Carle, wrote on Twitter: "He was born in 1928 not in 1929. My father always missed this little oddity."
  2. ↑ The Canadian Encyclopedia
  3. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: 50 ans". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved August 3, 2009.
  4. ↑ "Prix Albert-Tessier citation" (in French).
  5. ↑ "Gilles Carle – biography". Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
  6. ↑ Order of Canada citation
  7. ↑ "National Order of Quebec citation" (in French).
  8. ↑ Gilles Carle hailed as 'immense talent' The Montreal Gazette. Retrieved on November 29, 2009.

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