Review of Léolo (1992) by Irvin C — 10 Aug 2013

An imaginative, precocious 12 year old boy grows up in a highly dysfunctional, crazy family. He theorizes he must have been conceived by a tomato contaminated by sperm ejaculated by an Italian farmer. And that's just the beginning.

This began a bit rough for me. The tone is all over the place. The scatological humor isn't very funny and the film's too broad and quirky to be taken seriously. But eventually it found its footing and won me over.

It's a very nice, sweet film for people who will not be offended by scenes involving a sex with liver and cat rape.