University of Toronto Press, 2001. . He was also nominated in 1980 for Cordélia, in 1983 for A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi), in 1987 for Exit, in 1989 for Straight for the Heart (À corps perdu), in 1990 for Cruising Bar, in 1992 for Phantom Life (La vie fantôme), in 1999 for Alegría, in 2004 for Bittersweet Memories (Ma vie en cinémascope) and in 2005 for C.R.A.Z.Y..
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Her other film and television roles have included A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l'hôtel), The Alley Cat (Le Matou), Anne Trister, Straight for the Heart (À corps perdu), The Sex of the Stars (Le Sexe des étoiles) and L'Amour avec un Grand A. Her stage roles have included productions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata,"Lvsistrata as musical comedy". The Globe and Mail, June 4, 1969. Samuel Beckett's Play,"Mechanical means are Beckett's downfall". The Globe and Mail, May 8, 1975.
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It debuted at number 17 in the French Singles Chart, dropping to number 26 in its second week before climbing back to position number 21. The song remained in the charts for a total of 13 weeks. A third single, "À corps perdu", was less successful, with major French radio stations refusing to play it on account that it was "too sad". At the NRJ Music Awards in January 2006, Lemarchal was awarded "Breakthrough Artist of the Year" ("Révélation francophone de l'année").
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Léa Pool has won several awards, both from the press and the public. In 1984 La femme de l’hôtel was awarded the Best Canadian Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival. In 1986 she received the Audience Award for Anne Trister at the International Women's Film Festival in Créteil, and Best Feature Film at the Paris Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival, both in France. In addition, In 1988 Pool won 3 awards for À corps perdu, Emporte-moi, and the documentary on Gabrielle Roy.
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As an actor in both English and French languages, his credits include such noteworthy portrayals as Richard in Richard II, and the Captain in Dance of Death.Stratford 1969 Season Programme - Jean Gascon Biography He was the French/Indian Batise in the 1970 movie A Man Called Horse and was in a film in 1988 called À corps perdu (Straight for the Heart). Gascon died of a heart attack in 1988 in Stratford, Ontario and was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.
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Pool is known as a feminist in film studies, producing English-Canadian women's films and videos. Early in her career Pool drew inspiration from the works of author Marguerite Duras where focussing on the notions of expression and themes of exclusion. In 1975, Pool traveled to Canada to study film and video production, graduating with a degree in communications from the University of Quebec. Her film Straight for the Heart (À corps perdu) (1988) was selected for official competition in the Venice Film Festival and her film Desire in Motion (Mouvements du désir) (1994) was screened at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Among the films he produced were Léa Pool's À corps perdu (1988), André Forcier's Une histoire inventée (1990), and John Hamilton's The Myth of the Male Orgasm (1993); he was also responsible for a number of television series, such as The Lost World. Other notable works included the 1995 mini-series, Hiroshima, about the events leading up to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which won a Canadian Gemini Award and was nominated for an American Emmy, as well as earlier films One Man (1977), Drying Up the Streets (1978), and Suzanne (1980). Spry died in an early-morning road accident on March 28, 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, leaving behind a son, Jeremy, and a daughter, Zoé, whom he had fathered by journalist Carmel Dumas (from whom he was divorced at the time of his death). The first season of Charlie Jade was dedicated to his memory, as mentioned in the credits of the final episode, as was Air Crash Investigation's episode "Mistaken Identity".
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