Quebec screenwriter, producer and director Alain Chartrand has died at age 77. He is the son of the trade unionist Michel Chartrand and the writer Simonne Monet-Chartrand. His brother Dominique made the announcement on Facebook Monday evening.
“My brother Alain – generous, disciplined, epicurean, hardworking, music lover, traveler – left for his last journey with us. Gently and in the presence of her daughter Marie and her partner Alain Deniger, her two grandsons. His only regret, he told me before leaving, was not having shot his last film project. »
For television, Alain Chartrand directed, among others, the series Montreal, open city And Paparazzias well as Chartrand and Simoneabout his famous parents.
In the cinema, he directed Ding and Dong the movie, based on a screenplay by Claude Meunier, Anna’s Garden and more recently, in 2013, The Fisherman’s House. He also made a documentary about his father, A man of his worde, and on his mother, A life like a river.