Jean-Claude Labrecque

Known for DirectingBorn 1938-06-19Died 2019-05-31Québec City, Québec, Canada

Jean-Claude Labrecque, CM CQ (June 19, 1938 – May 31, 2019) was a director and cinematographer who learned the basics of filmmaking at the National Film Board of Canada. Jean-Claude Labrecque was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and trained as a camera assistant at the NFB. As a cinematographer, he shot many of the early key films of Claude Jutra (À tout prendre), Michel Brault (Entre la mer et l’eau douce), Gilles Carle (La vie heureuse de Léopold Z), Gilles Groulx (Le Chat dans le sac) and Don Owen (Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail, The Ernie Game). He turned to directing in 1965 with 60 Cycles, about a long-distance bike race on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River, which has been described as a virtual encyclopedia of camera techniques. It won 22 international awards and was nominated for a BAFTA. He left the NFB in 1967 to set-up his own production company, although he continued to freelance with the Board.Read more

Movies & web series

André Mathieu, musicien

Les années de rêves

La visite du Général De Gaulle au Québec

No Vacation for Idols

The Big Swim

Labrecque, une caméra pour la mémoire

Remembering Maria Chapdelaine

L'histoire des trois

Marie Uguay

The Coffin Affair

Michèle Lalonde

La vie

Solange in Our Countryside or Very Little for Me, the Sun

Such a Simple Game

De Montréal à Manicouagan

La Nuit de la poésie 28 mars 1980

Québec fête juin '75

La nuit de la poésie 27 mars 1970

A Great Big Thing

Those Damned Savages

Le RIN

Essai à la mille

Jusqu'au cou

60 Cycles

Le frère André

Cinéma, cinéma

À hauteur d'homme

Les vautours

The Heavenly Bodies

The Woman Who Drinks

Summit Circle

The Big Swim

Canada the Land

The Merry World of Leopold Z

Les beaux dimanches

The Wise Guys

Novena

The Times That Are

Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail

Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials

The Conquest

The Cat in the Bag

Between Sweet and Salt Water

Take It All

The Ernie Game

Games of the XXI Olympiad

Marriages

Amoureux fou