Offscreen Notes
Gilles Carles (1928-2009)
One of Quebec’s greatest filmmakers, Gilles Carles, passed away on November 28th at the age of 80. Carles was a principal player involved in all the great movements in contemporary Quebec cinema, starting at the NFB and its heralded French Unit and then directing some of the most important feature fiction films of the late 1960s and 1970s, including his first feature La Vie heureuse de Léopold Z (1965), made while at the NFB, and his greatest commercial success, La Vraie Nature de Bernadette (1972). Carles remains one of the most decorated and Internationally reknown Quebec filmmakers the world over.
