Léolo
Growing Up Can Be Painfully Funny.
ComedyDramaFantasysicily, italyinsanitypeasantquebecmontreal, canadadaydreambodybuildercoming of agewriterfalling in lovesnorkelmadness
A surreal, darkly comic coming-of-age fantasy where an imaginative boy's elaborate delusions and daydreams become his refuge from a chaotic, dysfunctional family and psychiatric institutionalization.
The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon which his mother accidentally fell.
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