My Friend Dino (2016)

Original title

Mon ami Dino

Directed by

Jimmy Larouche

Genre

documentary

Country

Canada

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An older man who once played a mafia boss on TV after serving time for drug trafficking deals with a serious illness in his 70s. The film blends fiction and documentary to show his daily life and memories.

quietreflectiveintimatebittersweetslow-pacedobservationalpersonalgrounded

What happens

My Friend Dino (French: Mon ami Dino) is a Canadian docufiction film, directed by Jimmy Larouche and released in 2016. A fictionalized documentary about the life of Dino Tavarone, who spent four years in prison for drug trafficking before finding fame playing a mafia boss in the television series Omertà in the 1990s, the film focuses on his life in his 70s as he battles a serious illness. The film's cast also includes Michel Côté, Manuel Tadros, Joëlle Morin and Sasha Migliarese. Côté, Tadros and Morin played versions of themselves, while Migliarese played Tavarone's daughter Meredith. Migliarese received a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 19th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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