1991
- 2018
- 1h 41min
NOTE IMDb
7,1/10
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Ricardo raconte ses aventures lorsqu'à 21 ans, il est parti en Italie pour suivre l'amour de sa vie.Ricardo raconte ses aventures lorsqu'à 21 ans, il est parti en Italie pour suivre l'amour de sa vie.Ricardo raconte ses aventures lorsqu'à 21 ans, il est parti en Italie pour suivre l'amour de sa vie.
- Récompenses
- 6 victoires et 14 nominations au total
Alberto Boubakar Malanchino
- Commis auberge de Rome
- (as Alberto Malanchino)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesYorda tells Ricardo four things in Greek. As a gag, these lines appear on screen in Greek, with no subtitles, but given the context in which they are spoken, they need no translation: "I know I'll see you again", "I like you very much", "I hope you are not like everybody else" and "He is so stupid" (in that order).
- GaffesAt the beginning, in the classroom, at the blackboard, the teacher breaks his chalk before finishing tracing the second line of a double line. In the following scene, the two lines are of equal length.
- Crédits fousSPOILER: We learn that the English receptionist at the Italian school (who had returned his lost belongings to Ricardo minus the Spray Color Hair can) is the one who kept it.
- ConnexionsFollows 1981 (2009)
Commentaire à la une
There are tons of movies with 80s music. Tons with 70s, 60s & 50s music. Alas, what about the poor 90s? Apparently the 90s was such a musically unidentifiable decade that imdb doesn't even have a soundtrack listing for this movie. But to anyone who remembers the 90s, the music is the key to this great flick. More on that in a sec, first let's talk about the plot.
In this 3rd film of writer/director Ricardo Trogi's epic autobiographical saga, we plant ourselves in the year 1991 at age of 21 as our hero "Trogi", a socially maladjusted college kid from Quebec, impulsively runs off to Italy chasing the (3rd) girl of his dreams. The story unravels in a quirky, comedic way as he deals with the pains of lone travel in foreign countries, a swiftly evaporating budget, a premature bald patch, and of course a girl of his dreams who seems far more interested in shady Spanish men than him.
I probably just named a bunch of things that don't apply to your life (unless you happen to be a prematurely balding 21 year old wandering around European train stations), so you might be wondering why you'd want to watch this flick. Well, back to my original point about the music, that's what bridges the cultural/age gap and pulls us into this great nostalgic trip even if we've never been there. With its opening scene of a girl annoyingly lip-synching Technotronic's "Move This" ("Shake that body"), to the ironically sexy use of Enigma, to heartbreak à la Roxette ("Must Have Been Love But It's Over Now"), the music is what connects us to this story. Songs are given to us in generous doses, not just a 10 second clips here & there like in most throwback films but in a way that really pulls us into the experience as if it's our own; we all remember where we were when we first heard these songs, and this film uses that device to powerful effect.
As the story unfolds we realize that, despite its specific time and setting, this tale is timeless and universal. It's about the awkwardness of young adulthood, the awkwardness of being a fish out of water, whether you're a French-Canadian stuck in Italy or whatever/wherever you may be. Like the 2 films that preceded this one, this is a story with a lot of heart even though it's presented as a quirky fast-paced comedy. The themes aren't limited to laughs, love & growing up, but here they begin to develop into questions of one's purpose in life. "We're going to change the world!!" one character shouts in a memorable scene as a crowd looks on silently and dismissively. The subtle message being, I'm guessing, that before you can change the world you have to figure out who you are.
I highly recommend the entire Trogi-logy ("1981", "1987" and "1991") which by the way you can watch in any order and still enjoy. Looking at my watch I'm thinking it's about time for "1997" to be released, in which case I'll be in the front row waiting to hear some Nirvana, Ace of Base, and *cringe* Oasis "Wonderwall".
In this 3rd film of writer/director Ricardo Trogi's epic autobiographical saga, we plant ourselves in the year 1991 at age of 21 as our hero "Trogi", a socially maladjusted college kid from Quebec, impulsively runs off to Italy chasing the (3rd) girl of his dreams. The story unravels in a quirky, comedic way as he deals with the pains of lone travel in foreign countries, a swiftly evaporating budget, a premature bald patch, and of course a girl of his dreams who seems far more interested in shady Spanish men than him.
I probably just named a bunch of things that don't apply to your life (unless you happen to be a prematurely balding 21 year old wandering around European train stations), so you might be wondering why you'd want to watch this flick. Well, back to my original point about the music, that's what bridges the cultural/age gap and pulls us into this great nostalgic trip even if we've never been there. With its opening scene of a girl annoyingly lip-synching Technotronic's "Move This" ("Shake that body"), to the ironically sexy use of Enigma, to heartbreak à la Roxette ("Must Have Been Love But It's Over Now"), the music is what connects us to this story. Songs are given to us in generous doses, not just a 10 second clips here & there like in most throwback films but in a way that really pulls us into the experience as if it's our own; we all remember where we were when we first heard these songs, and this film uses that device to powerful effect.
As the story unfolds we realize that, despite its specific time and setting, this tale is timeless and universal. It's about the awkwardness of young adulthood, the awkwardness of being a fish out of water, whether you're a French-Canadian stuck in Italy or whatever/wherever you may be. Like the 2 films that preceded this one, this is a story with a lot of heart even though it's presented as a quirky fast-paced comedy. The themes aren't limited to laughs, love & growing up, but here they begin to develop into questions of one's purpose in life. "We're going to change the world!!" one character shouts in a memorable scene as a crowd looks on silently and dismissively. The subtle message being, I'm guessing, that before you can change the world you have to figure out who you are.
I highly recommend the entire Trogi-logy ("1981", "1987" and "1991") which by the way you can watch in any order and still enjoy. Looking at my watch I'm thinking it's about time for "1997" to be released, in which case I'll be in the front row waiting to hear some Nirvana, Ace of Base, and *cringe* Oasis "Wonderwall".
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Site officiel
- Langues
- Lieux de tournage
- Perugia, Umbria, Italie(city where Ricardo studies in summer)
- Sociétés de production
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Box-office
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 2 342 264 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 328 828 $US
- 29 juil. 2018
- Montant brut mondial
- 2 342 264 $US
- Durée1 heure 41 minutes
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