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Roger Frappier

Roger Frappier

Quebec film director, producer and screenwriter
April 14, 1945 (79 years old)
Can. 2024. Dramatic comedy by André Forcier with Rémi Brideau, Éric Bruneau, Rémy Girard. In a working-class neighborhood of Montreal, an apprentice typographer who dreams of freedom sees his life transformed by the publication of a pro-secularism pamphlet.
Runtime: 94 min.
Can. 2023. Biography by Lyne Charlebois with Alexandre Goyette, Mylène Mackay, Rachel Graton. In the 1930s, Brother Marie-Victorin pursued a passionate letter-writing relationship with Marcelle Gauvreau, his student and assistant, 23 years his junior.
Runtime: 99 min.
G.-B. 2021. Western by Jane Campion with Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee. In 1925 Montana, an arrogant rancher opposes his brother and business partner’s marriage to a widow with a sickly son.
Runtime: 125 min.
Can. 2019. Documentary by Roger Frappier, Justin Kingsley. In the fall of 2018, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal visits several Indigenous communities in Quebec to present an opera inspired by an Innu legend.
Runtime: 123 min.

Hochelaga, Land of Souls

V.O.: Hochelaga, Terre des âmes
Can. 2017. History by François Girard with Samian, Vincent Pérez, Wahiakeron Gilbert. An Indigenous doctoral student in archaeology reveals the major discoveries he made following a land collapse in a Montreal university stadium.
Runtime: 100 min.
Can. 2016. Sentimental drama by Kim Nguyen with Dane DeHaan, Tatiana Maslany, John Ralston. Two lovers, stranded in the Canadian Arctic to escape a troubled past, embark on a long journey south on snowmobiles.
Runtime: 97 min.

Another House

V.O.: L'Autre Maison
Can. 2013. Drama by Mathieu Roy with Émile Proulx-Cloutier, Roy Dupuis, Marcel Sabourin. An apprentice bush pilot and his brother, a war photographer argue about how to care for their father suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Runtime: 100 min.
Can. 2012. Thriller by Manon Briand with Stéphanie Lapointe, Charles-Alexandre Dubé, Louis Morissette. A checkroom attendant at a bar and an aspiring journalist get caught up in a dark case of inheritance and electronic waste.
Runtime: 113 min.

Crying Out

V.O.: À l'origine d'un cri
Can. 2010. Psychological drama by Robin Aubert with Patrick Hivon, Michel Barrette, Jean Lapointe. A troubled young man takes to the road with his grandfather in the hope of finding his father who has run off with the remains of his second wife.
Runtime: 114 min.
Fr. 2009. Comedy by Agnès Obadia with Sandrine Kiberlain, Pascal Elbé, Louis Morissette. The extravagant adventure of a lost Parisian woman abandoned by her lover upon her arrival in Montreal.
Runtime: 86 min.
Can. 2008. Mores drama by Lyne Charlebois with Isabelle Blais, Angèle Coutu, Jean-Hugues Anglade. A literature student struggling to break free from her difficult past has a dead-end affair with a married professor.
Runtime: 110 min.
Can. 2005. Fantasy by Robin Aubert with François Chénier, Isabelle Blais, Luc Senay. A journalist and his photographer friend are dispatched to a remote village to investigate mysterious disappearances.
Runtime: 107 min.

Seducing Doctor Lewis

V.O.: La Grande Séduction
Can. 2003. Dramatic comedy by Jean-François Pouliot with Raymond Bouchard, David Boutin, Pierre Collin. The inhabitants of an isolated village organize a giant scam to convince a doctor to settle in their village.
Runtime: 110 minute

Tar Angel

V.O.: L'Ange de goudron
Can. 2001. Social drama by Denis Chouinard with Zinedine Soualem, Catherine Trudeau, Rabah Aït Ouyahia. An Algerian immigrant goes in search of his son, a young anarchist activist who has fled to northern Quebec.
Runtime: 99 min.

Life After Love

V.O.: La Vie après l'amour
Can. 2000. Sentimental comedy by Gabriel Pelletier with Michel Côté, Sylvie Léonard, Patrick Huard. When his wife leaves him after 20 years of marriage, a man tries by any means necessary to bring back meaning to his life.
Can. 2000. Psychological drama by Denis Villeneuve with Marie-Josée Croze, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Stéphanie Morgenstern. After killing a man in a hit-and-run, a guilt-ridden young woman meets the victim's son.
Runtime: 86 min.

2 Seconds

V.O.: 2 Secondes
Can. 1998. Mores comedy by Manon Briand with Charlotte Laurier, Dino Tavarone, Yves Pelletier. A former mountain bike champion becomes a bicycle courier in Montreal and befriends an Italian who is a former bicycle racer.
Runtime: 105 min.

August 32nd on Earth

V.O.: Un 32 août sur Terre
Can. 1998. Dramatic comedy by Denis Villeneuve with Pascale Bussières, Alexis Martin, Richard S. Hamilton. A young woman who survived a car accident convinces her best friend to have a child with her in the salt desert near Salt Lake City.
Runtime: 89 min.

The Countess of Baton Rouge

V.O.: La Comtesse de Baton Rouge
Can. 1997. Dramatic comedy by André Forcier with Robin Aubert, Geneviève Brouillette, Isabel Richer.
Runtime: 94 min.
Runtime: 100 min.
Can. 1993. Mores drama by Denys Arcand with Thomas Gibson, Ruth Marshall, Cameron Bancroft. The love tribulations of a group of young people with different sexual orientations.
Runtime: 100 min.

Phantom Life

V.O.: La Vie fantôme
Can. 1992. Mores drama by Jacques Leduc with Ron Lea, Pascale Bussières, Johanne-Marie Tremblay. A married man has an extramarital relationship with a young bookseller.
Runtime: 98 min.
Can. 1991. Psychological drama by Patrick Dewolf with Mathew Mackay, John Hurt, Marthe Keller. With the help of a psychiatrist, a teenager with amnesia manages to remember his past in Western Canada.
Runtime: 86 min.

Ding & Dong

V.O.: Ding et Dong, le film
Can. 1990. Comedy by Alain Chartrand with Serge Thériault, Claude Meunier, Raymond Bouchard. Two mischievous actors inherit a large sum of money with which they set out to open a theatre to perform a classic by Corneille.
Runtime: 96 min.

Jesus of Montreal

V.O.: Jésus de Montréal
Can. 1989. Dramatic comedy by Denys Arcand with Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening, Johanne-Marie Tremblay. A young actor, solicited by a religious man to renovate the presentation of a dramatic Stations of the Cross, creates a revised version of the passion of Christ.
Runtime: 120 min.

Night Zoo

V.O.: Un Zoo la nuit
Can. 1987. Mores drama by Jean-Claude Lauzon with Gilles Maheu, Roger Le Bel, Germain Houde. Harassed by a crooked police officer, an ex-convict reconnects with his sick father, whose last hours he tries to make more pleasant.
Runtime: 116 min.

The Decline of the American Empire

V.O.: Le Déclin de l'empire américain
Can. 1986. Mores comedy by Denys Arcand with Dominique Michel, Rémy Girard, Pierre Curzi. Having met for a meal in a villa in the country, four couples find their love lives put into perspective.
Runtime: 101 min.

The Last Glacier

V.O.: Le Dernier Glacier
Can. 1983. Social drama by Jacques Leduc, Roger Frappier with Robert Gravel, Louise Laprade, Michel Rivard. When the Iron Ore mining company decides to stop its operations in Schefferville, a couple wonders about their future.
Runtime: 84 min.
Can. 1981. Documentary by Denys Arcand. Insights into the Quebec referendum campaign during the spring of 1980, interspersed with commentary from Machiavelli's work.
Runtime: 109 min.
Can. 1973. Documentary by Roger Frappier. Account of the artistic visual and sound research undertaken by the poet Raoul Duguay with a musical group under the direction of the composer Walter Boudreau.
Runtime: 85 min.

The Great Ordinary Movie

V.O.: Le Grand Film ordinaire
Can. 1971. Documentary by Roger Frappier with Raymond Cloutier, Paule Baillargeon, Jocelyn Bérubé. A troupe of young actors travels through the villages of Quebec presenting a show.
Runtime: 79 min.

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