Director
Carl Leblanc
Production
AD HOC Films Bis
Language
French
Year
2021
84 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1
On May 22, 2015, Mario shot a bullet in his head. Committing one of 1200 suicides in Quebec that year, he left his family and friends with many questions and deep sadness, the very same one that assails anyone brutally left grieving by a volontary and irremediable departure. Mario was the best and longest friend of the filmmaker of this film. In this documentary, the latter describe and dissect what preceded Mario’s ultimate move, as well as demonstrate the dismay of his close group of friends. By extension, this is the narrative of a troubling experience that everyone of us has unfortunately been through or will go through.
Writing: Carl Leblanc
Cinematography: Alex Margineanu
Editing: Carl Leblanc, Sylvain Caron
Sound Design and Mix: Éric Tessier
Original score: Anthony Rozankovic
Sound: Stéphane Barsalou
Cast: Robert Lalonde
Carl Leblanc
Mid-90s, Carl Leblanc founds AD HOC FILMS. With his friend and colleague Luc Cyr, he produces and/or directs around fifteen documentaries including Canada by night( that won the Gémeaux du meilleur documentaire price in 1999), Le cœur d’Auschwitz (finalist for the Jutra 2011) and two docuseries including La boîte noire (the won the Gémeaux de la meilleure réalisation and the Gémeaux de la meilleure musique originale in 2003). For more than ten years, he navigates between documentary filmmaking (Nation : huits-clos avec Lucien Bouchard and Le commun des mortels) and novel writing (Le personnage secondaire, Artéfact, Fruits). Perdre Mario is his fourth feature length documentary.
Perdre Mario, 82 min, Documentary, 2021
Le commun des mortels, 82 min, Documentary, 2017
Être ailleurs: l’année québécoise de M. Juppé, 52 min, Documentary, 2016
Nation: un huis-clos avec Lucien Bouchard, 83 min, Documentary, 2014
Le cœur d’Auschwitz, 85 min, Documentary, 2010
Dieu et nous, 208 min, Documentary series, 2009
Les feux de la Saint-Jean, 54 min, Documentary, 2005
L’otage, 78 min, Documentary, 2004
15 novembre 76, 20h40, 54 min, Documentary, 2004
Thérèse et Albert, 54 min, Documentary, 2003
La boîte noire, 780 min, Documentary series, 2002–2005
La fin du Canada, 54 min, Documentary, 2002
L’eau à la bouche, 53 min, Documentary, 2001
Archives de l’âme, 54 min, Documentary, 2001
La Belle Province, 54 min, Documentary, 2000
Mourir en France, 54 min, Documentary, 2000
Mon frère Richard, 54 min, Documentary, 1999
Canada by Night, 54 min, Documentary, 1999
Le Chemin du Roy, 54 min, Documentary, 1997
Lettres à Lucienne, 52 min, Documentary, 1996