| Thrill of the Hills | |
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| French | Frisson des collines |
| Directed by | Richard Roy |
| Written by | Michel Michaud Richard Roy |
| Produced by | Louis-Philippe Rochon |
| Starring | Antoine Olivier Pilon Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge Evelyne Brochu Anick Lemay Patrice Robitaille |
| Cinematography | Yves Bélanger |
| Edited by | Michel Arcand |
| Music by | FM Le Sieur |
Production company | Solofilms |
| Distributed by | Les Films Séville |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
Thrill of the Hills (French: Frisson des collines) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Richard Roy and released in 2011.[1] Set in Quebec in the late 1960s, the film stars Antoine Olivier Pilon as Frisson, a young boy whose father Aurèle (Patrice Robitaille) is killed in a workplace accident, who responds to his grief by enlisting his father's friend Tom (Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge) to take him to Woodstock so that he can see his musical idol, Jimi Hendrix, perform.[2]
The cast also includes Anick Lemay as Frisson's mother Lucille; Antoine Bertrand as Burger, the village idiot of their small town; and Evelyne Brochu as Hélène, Frisson's teacher at school on whom he is developing a crush as he enters puberty.
The film entered production in late summer 2010,[3] and the film had its theatrical premiere on April 15, 2011.[4]
- ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Frisson des collines – Film de Richard Roy". Films du Québec, March 28, 2011.
- ^ Brendan Kelly, "Feels good, but it's not moving; Comic-drama dips into 1960s nostalgia". Montreal Gazette, April 15, 2011.
- ^ "Le tournage du film "Frisson-des-Collines", de Richard Roy, est commencé". Canadian Press, August 4, 2010.
- ^ "Frisson des collines prend l'affiche aujourd'hui". Le Téléjournal, April 15, 2011.