Fear of Water (2011 film)

Fear of Water
Film poster
FrenchLa Peur de l'eau
Directed byGabriel Pelletier
Written byGabriel Pelletier
Marcel Beaulieu
Produced byNicole Robert
StarringPierre-François Legendre
Brigitte Pogonat
Normand D'Amour
Pascale Bussières
Stéphanie Lapointe
CinematographyNicolas Bolduc
Edited byGlenn Berman
Music byLaurent Eyquem
Production
company
Distributed byRemstar
Release date
  • November 19, 2011 (2011-11-19)
Running time
122 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Fear of Water (French: La Peur de l'eau) is a Canadian thriller drama film, directed by Gabriel Pelletier and released in 2011.[1] The film stars Pierre-François Legendre as André Surprenant, a police officer in the Magdalen Islands who is investigating the rape and murder of the mayor's daughter Rosalie (Stéphanie Lapointe).[2]

The film's cast also includes Brigitte Pogonat, Sandrine Bisson, Isabelle Cyr, Paul Doucet, Normand D'Amour, Pierre-Luc Brillant, Germain Houde and Pascale Bussières.

The film was inspired by, but not a direct adaptation of, Jean Lemieux's crime novel On finit toujours par payer.[2]

The film had its theatrical premiere in November 2011,[1] before going into commercial release in January 2012.[3]

  1. ^ a b Charles-Henri Ramond, "Peur de l’eau, La – Film de Gabriel Pelletier". Films du Québec, January 7, 2012.
  2. ^ a b André Duchesne, "La peur de l'eau, film d'horreur?". La Presse, October 4, 2012.
  3. ^ Guillaume Fournier, "La peur de l’eau : L’île noire". Voir, January 19, 2012.