Filmmaker Alain Chartrand, son of trade unionist Michel Chartrand and writer Simonne Monet-Chartrand, died Monday at the age of 77.
His brother, Dominique Chartrand, confirmed the news on social networks on Tuesday. “His only regret,” he told me, [est de] not having filmed his last film project. I owe him a lot, and I am sure that he kisses you very tenderly,” wrote the man who worked as a sound recordist on a few films directed by his brother.
Alain Chartrand’s latest feature film, The fisherman’s housedated back to 2013. This historical drama looks back on the decisive meeting of the future Felquist Bernard Lortie with the brothers Rose and Francis Simard, in a youth hostel in Gaspésie in 1969.
But Alain Chartrand was best known for his work on the lives of his famous parents. With his partner Diane Cailher, who died in 2020, he co-directed the documentary in 1996 A life like a river on the journey of her mother, Simonne Monet-Chartrand, a key figure in feminism in Quebec. Five years earlier, he had made a documentary, A man of his word, to his father, the fiery union leader Michel Chartrand. We also owe him the fiction series Chartrand and Simone, in which Luc Picard and Geneviève Rioux play the main roles.
However, Alain Chartrand’s greatest success remains Ding and Dong, the movie, with Claude Meunier and Serge Thériault. This popular comedy was demolished by critics upon its release in 1990, but was acclaimed by audiences in theaters.
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