André Turpin

André Turpin

Birth : , Québec, Québec, Canada

History

André Turpin is a Canadian cinematographer, best known for working with directors Denis Villeneuve and Xavier Dolan.

Profile

André Turpin
André Turpin

Movies

The Nature of Love
Director of Photography
Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Sylvain is a carpenter in the Laurentians and must renovate their country house. When Sophia meets Sylvain for the first time, it’s love at first sight. Opposites attract, but can it last?
god@mail.com
Director of Photography
Réal Gendron is an unremarkable old man. He believes in God. He believes in friendship. And he believes in life. So when he receives an e-mail from a total stranger in Africa informing him that he’s the sole legatee of an immense fortune, he believes that too.
Matthias & Maxime
Director of Photography
Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.
Playmobil: The Movie
Director of Photography
Marla is forced to abandon her carefully structured life to embark on an epic journey to find her younger brother Charlie who has disappeared into the vast and wondrous animated world of Playmobil toys.
Reese The Movie: A Movie About Reese
Cinematography
5 of YouTube's top ASMRtists discover the ultimate way to eat REESE Peanut Butter Cups in this weird and wonderful feature film. A sensory experience presented in ASMR audio to give you the chills.
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
Cinematography
A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
Three Pages
Cinematography
An unassuming middle-aged accountant learns he has only weeks to live. Rather than tell everyone, Martin determines to learn the three pages of a Bach adagio for piano he'd abandoned as a child. That accomplished, he performs the piece for his wife and friends, completing his life and thanking those who brightened it along the way.
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
Self
Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider and Melvil Poupaud discuss working with the young Canadian director Xavier Dolan, who has conquered the hearts of both cinema lovers and prestigious festival juries with his films. To French actress Nathalie Baye, he seems very experienced despite his young age, while Cannes Director Thierry Frémaux says he may be insolent, but everyone agrees he is passionate, creative, a perfectionist and... in a hurry.
It's Only the End of the World
Director of Photography
Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.
Endorphine
Writer
Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia artist in her twenties, is struggling to control her crushing panic attacks and keep her day job in an underground parking lot. And Simone, a sixty-year-old physicist, is giving a conference on the nature of time. The three Simones' lives are intertwined in a labyrinthine meta-world where timeframes overlap, characters multiply, and storylines repeat and expand. But, for all its shuttling forward and back through time, ENDORPHINE remains grounded in the Simones' inner lives — it's an artistic examination of scientific phenomena that also poignantly explores how people deal with trauma.
Endorphine
Director
Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia artist in her twenties, is struggling to control her crushing panic attacks and keep her day job in an underground parking lot. And Simone, a sixty-year-old physicist, is giving a conference on the nature of time. The three Simones' lives are intertwined in a labyrinthine meta-world where timeframes overlap, characters multiply, and storylines repeat and expand. But, for all its shuttling forward and back through time, ENDORPHINE remains grounded in the Simones' inner lives — it's an artistic examination of scientific phenomena that also poignantly explores how people deal with trauma.
Mommy
Director of Photography
A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.
Take Me
Writer
A nurse working in a center for the disabled is confronted to his principles when he's asked to accomplish a particular task.
Take Me
Director
A nurse working in a center for the disabled is confronted to his principles when he's asked to accomplish a particular task.
Tom at the Farm
Director of Photography
A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.
Whitewash
Director of Photography
In the harsh, wintry woods of rural Quebec, Bruce (Thomas Haden Church), a down-on-his-luck snowplow operator, accidentally kills a man during a drunken night joyride. Stricken with panic, he hides the body and takes to the deep wilderness in hopes of outrunning both the authorities and his own conscience. But as both begin to close in, Bruce falls apart mentally and morally and mysteries unravel to reveal who he was before the accident, the truth behind his victim, and the circumstances that brought them together in a single moment.
Ina Litovski
Director
Outsider Sophie or Ina Litovski, as she prefers to be called, feels ignored by her lethargic mother with whom she lives in a small apartment. Tonight she'll play her violin at the school concert and she decides to make this the turning point in her life.
Seven Hours Three Times a Year
Director
A man and a woman love each other, like for the last time. Until the next. In just a few minutes and even lesser words, we are confronted with a short story which repeats itself three times a year, during seven hours.
Incendies
Director of Photography
A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.
Temps chimique
Director
It's Not Me, I Swear!
Director of Photography
Léon is ten years old, has lots of problems and an overly fertile imagination. Of course, there is mom and dad who are always fighting, and those annoying neighbors who get to spend the summer at the beach. And then, there's Léa, the exasperating girl who's always right about everything. In the summer of '68, when mom decides to leave everything behind to start a new life in Greece, Léon is prepared to do anything to kill the pain. Destroy the neighbors' house, become a professional liar and even, why not, fall in love with Léa. Together, they will overcome the pain of growing up when you feel abandoned.
Congorama
Director of Photography
Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the age of 41 that he was adopted, actually having been born in Sainte-Cécile, Quebec. In the summer of 2000, he travels to Quebec, supposedly to sell some of his inventions. While on a near-impossible quest to find his birth family in the town where he was born, he crosses paths with Louis Legros, son of another inventor, in a meeting which will change their lives.
Childstar
Director of Photography
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.
Soft Shell Man
Cinematography
An emotionally immature underwater photographer returns home to an affair with his best friend's deaf girlfriend and unresolved issues with the wife he left six months before.
Soft Shell Man
Writer
An emotionally immature underwater photographer returns home to an affair with his best friend's deaf girlfriend and unresolved issues with the wife he left six months before.
Soft Shell Man
Director
An emotionally immature underwater photographer returns home to an affair with his best friend's deaf girlfriend and unresolved issues with the wife he left six months before.
Maelström
Director of Photography
Bibiane, a wealthy part-time model, questions her seemingly perfect life after she has a traumatic abortion.
August 32nd on Earth
Director of Photography
After escaping unscathed from a car accident, photo model Simone decides that having a baby is the only way to give her vacant life some meaning. She asks her best friend Philippe to get her pregnant, and he reluctantly agrees, on the condition that they conceive somewhere in a desert, so they leave Montréal on a 24-hour round-trip to Salt Lake City to find a suitable spot.
Cosmos
Director of Photography
Through an immigrant cab driver, our world collides with a nervous filmmaker, a lawyer whose new breasts her ex-boyfriend wants to see, a mystery man, a gay man who might or might not have AIDS, and a birthday girl who got stood up. It is a mixture of laughter and sadness, all floating on a sea of philosophy.
Cosmos
Director
Through an immigrant cab driver, our world collides with a nervous filmmaker, a lawyer whose new breasts her ex-boyfriend wants to see, a mystery man, a gay man who might or might not have AIDS, and a birthday girl who got stood up. It is a mixture of laughter and sadness, all floating on a sea of philosophy.
Zigrail
Writer
Zigrail
Director
Petite Mort
Director of Photography
The solitude of a mime in fall. Classical and pornographic.
Petite Mort
Producer
The solitude of a mime in fall. Classical and pornographic.