Quebec filmmaker Érik Canuel, best known for the cult black comedy Bon Cop, Bad Cop, has died. He was 63 years old. Annexe, a Montreal-based communications firm confirmed the news of Canuel’s death with local press Monday.
The director’s cause of death has been reported as complications related to secondary plasma cell leukemia. Born in Montreal in 1961, Canuel was the son of two actors, Yvan Canuel and Lucille Papineau.
He began his career in the 1980s shooting music videos for artists such as Paul Piché, Sass Jordan, Norman Iceberg, Vilain Pingouin, and Sylvain Cossette.
His first feature film was (The Pig’s Law) La loi du Cochon, a crime drama about two sisters who run a struggling pig farm in rural Quebec and decide to rent part of their land out to a criminal marijuana smuggling ring.
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