François Messier-Rheault

Películas

La fonte des glaces
Director of Photography
Louise Denoncourt, a parole officer, skillfully operates an experimental rehabilitation wing for criminals who have committed homicides. When she finds herself in front of Marc St-Germain, a new inmate whom her father suspects of being her mother's murderer, she embarks on a mission that quickly overwhelms her. She then puts everything at stake, even her life, in order to prevent any desire to reoffend. But will she be overtaken by the desire to avenge her family history?
Making Babies
Director of Photography
After many years together, a couple decides to have a baby. Throughout their relentless efforts, the partners try to maintain their love and unity. MAKING BABIES is a minimalist comedy drama that takes a bittersweet look at a couple’s life, with its doubts, its challenges and its resilience.
Virga
Director of Photography
Pascal suspects the worst when he reads the post of Jérémy, a former classmate. He immediately alerts the police, convinced that Jérémy is on the verge of attacking his ex-colleagues. Feeling that the police won’t do anything, Pascal decides to go help the young man himself.
That Kind of Summer
Director of Photography
En una casa de campo donde deben explorar los problemas de su sexualidad, tres mujeres pasan días y noches aprehendiendo de sus demonios internos. Un sereno terapeuta alemán y una bondadosa trabajadora social las supervisan, las ayudan y tratan de mantener el frágil equilibrio del grupo. Durante 26 días, en pleno verano, Geisha, Léonie y Eugénie deberán abstenerse de derrumbarse, domar los susurros del presente y pensar en el futuro.
Landgraves
Director of Photography
A young journalist goes into the deep wood to interview the heavy-metal duo LANDGRAVES, who records an album for the first time since a murder imprisonment. His curiosity pushes him to follow the band deep in the forest, as a snowstorm arises.
Through the Wall
Director of Photography
A mother discovers the surprising universe hidden in the silence of her son.
Tibbits Hill
Director of Photography
If the wind spoke the language of children, what would its voice be? The film tells the story of migrating children that have found refuge from war in an abandoned school, protected from the horrifying whistling of the wind. When one of them disappears, they decide to break the silence and reunite to commemorate the loss.
Social Hygiene
Director of Photography
Filósofo hedonista-delincuente, Antonin siempre encuentra la palabra adecuada para ganarse tanto los halagos como los reproches de sus compañeros/as. Casado, no pierde la ocasión de explotar la bondad y la paciencia de su mujer, Églantine. También es una fuente constante de decepción para su hermana, Solveig. Tratando de evitar a Rose, la recaudadora de impuestos que anda tras su cuello, Antonin no puede quitarse de la cabeza la atracción y el deseo por la bella Cassiopée. Atormentado, debe ahora idear la estratagema y las palabras adecuadas para disculparse ante Aurore, una de sus víctimas. Entre estas cinco mujeres, Antonin se ve atrapado.
The Music Lesson
Director of Photography
Seb, mariachi musician by night and guitar teacher by day, is by all accounts, a failed artist. Like a ghost wandering through his own life, Seb follows outside expectations and comically drifts further away from his dream of becoming a songwriter.
Resistance: Police Against the Wall
Director of Photography
The new Longueuil police chief, Fady Dagher, is aware of the challenges he faces. Well positioned for the next five years, he intends to make great changes within this institution. This documentary is an intimate portrait of a man, a vision and an environment into which cameras do not often have access.
Une histoire complètement cirque
Director of Photography
Soleils noirs
Director of Photography
An epic investigation into countless murders in Mexico. Presented in chapters, the film unfolds methodically through unsettling testimonials, sketching a portrait of an entire country transformed into a gigantic mass grave thanks to a climate of impunity established by both criminal gangs and state authorities.
Wilcox
Director of Photography
Wilcox exists outside the norm. Deserter, delinquent, or survivalist, he quietly roams, looking to put down roots or for what could simply be called freedom.
Une bombe au coeur
Director of Photography
To follow the passion that makes his heart beat or to risk his integrity in order to reach the firmament. This is a man's ultimate dilemma when he finds himself at the edge of the precipice.
Plainsong
Director of Photography
A supernatural force takes over a trio's vacation.
Antología de un pueblo fantasma
Director of Photography
Simon Dubé muere en un accidente de coche que tiene lugar en un pequeño y remoto pueblo de Quebec, de apenas 215 personas. Sorprendidos, los habitantes del pueblo procuran no hablar sobre las circunstancias de la tragedia. El suceso desgarra a la familia Dubé, y afecta psicológicamente a la alcaldesa Smallwood y a muchos aldeanos que no saben qué hacer para dejar atrás lo sucedido. Mientras la gente trata de digerir la desgracia, una serie de personas desconocidas comienzan a llegar al pueblo, a los que acompaña una espesa niebla.
A Skin So Soft
Director of Photography
Jean-François, Ronald, Alexis, Cédric, Benoit and Maxim are gladiators of modern times. From the strongman to the top-class bodybuilder, to the veteran who has become a trainer, they all share the same definition and obsession with overcoming their limitations. They are waiting for the next competition, working hard in the gym and following extreme diets.
Pas d'excuses, pas de limites
Additional Director of Photography
Luca Patuelli is an internationally renown Bboy dancer known as LazyLegz. He born with Arthrogryposis, a disorder that makes the use of his legs almost impossible. For the past few years, he has been the head of a Hip Hop dance program: Projet RAD, an urban dance program in which he gives people with disabilities a chance to follow inclusive classes in a safe environment adapted to their needs.
The Sound of Trees
Director of Photography
At 17 Jérémie dreams of a life different from the one that awaits him at the family sawmill in the small Canadian town where he lives.
W-A-L-K
Director of Photography
During a lazy Montreal summer day, preteen Clara decides to master the art of walking in high-heel shoes. It would probably be an easier undertaking if she didn't have to take the dog, Eddie, along for the ride.
Skyline
Director of Photography
A man tormented by old age reluctantly accepts to abandon the last remaining tie to his youth: his motorcycle.
Not with Fat Sophie
Director of Photography
Simon is 14 years old and, like most teenagers, he is struggling through this thankless period. He is uncomfortable in his body and has lived for a long time in the shadow of his friend Stéphane, who is more handsome and more popular than him.
Steve Pouliot
Director of Photography
Powder
Director of Photography
Two friends spend a summer day together in the suburbs of Montreal. As the evening comes, they go to the fireworks hoping to be entertained but the event ends up igniting memories of a different nature.
Crawler
Camera Operator
A crew on a remote construction site are plagued by a series of bizarre mishaps. As the incidents turn more and more savage, it becomes clear that the sole link to the deadly events - is a 50-ton bulldozer.
Land of Men
Director of Photography
Two police officers, Catherine and Patrick, patrol in Longueuil, a suburb of Montreal in Canada. During their shift, they arrest Jose Maria, a Mexican illegal immigrant who just crossed the border. The officers hold him at their station during the night, while waiting for the arrival of the federal police, the RCMP.
West Coast Québec
Director of Photography
THE WASHING MACHINE
Cinematography
After attending the funeral and exhibition of his mother’s urn, Samuel 7 years old, returns home with his father Mario. Life must resume and Mario decides to show his son to use the washing machine. At the same time, Mario tells a secret to his son. The washing machine is special. Everything that goes in for a wash, travel back in time…
Ditch
Director of Photography
Since her aunt threw herself into the depths of a quarry, Josette has been obsessed with death. She decides to run away, hoping to escape the madness she believes is running in her family blood. In her frantic race, her destiny will crash into another fugitive, Michelle, who may well save her from her curse. But the harsh reality will catch up with them at high speed.