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1991 (2018)

1991 poster
Directed by
Ricardo Trogi
Genre
comedy drama
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 41m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 32 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young Quebecois filmmaker travels to Italy in 1991 to pursue a romantic relationship. The film follows his personal and comedic experiences during that trip.

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What happens

1991 is a Québecois (french canadien) comedy-drama film, written and directed by Ricardo Trogi, and released in 2018. The third film in his semi-autobiographical series after 1981 and 1987, the film centres on Trogi's (Jean-Carl Boucher) 1991 trip to Italy to pursue a relationship with Marie-Ève (Juliette Gosselin). The film finished 2018 as the year's top-grossing Canadian film, and was named the winner of the Golden Screen Award at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards. It received 16 Prix Iris nominations at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards, including Best Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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