1991 (film)

1991
Directed by	Ricardo Trogi
Written by	Ricardo Trogi
Produced by	Nicole Robert
Starring	Jean-Carl Boucher Sandrine Bisson Juliette Gosselin
Narrated by	Ricardo Trogi
Cinematography	Steve Asselin
Edited by	Yvann Thibaudeau
Music by	Frédéric Bégin
Production company	GO Films
Distributed by	Les Films Seville, Entertainment One
Release date	July 27, 2018 (2018-07-27)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

1991 is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Ricardo Trogi and released in 2018.^[1] The third film in his semi-autobiographical series after 1981 and 1987,^[1] the film centres on Ricardo's (Jean-Carl Boucher) 1991 trip to Italy to pursue a relationship with Marie-Ève (Juliette Gosselin).^[2]

The film finished 2018 as the year's top-grossing Canadian film,^[3] and was named the winner of the Golden Screen Award at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards.^[4] It received 16 Prix Iris nominations at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards, including Best Film.^[5]

Plot[]

In 1991, Ricardo Troji is 21 and studies for cinema at an university in Montréal. Her friend and “the woman of his life”, Marie-Ève Bernard invites him to go in Italy to study Italian in Perugia. Determined, Ricardo accepts without hesitation. He then prepares his baggage, including a spray bottle to hide a bald spot noticed by his family.

Inside a train, Ricardo meets Arturo, a illegal traveler who gains money to live by playing Like a Rolling Stone on guitar in the streets. On arrival, failing to find Marie-Ève, Ricardo accidentally loses his baggage, passport, money, letter of acceptance to the University of Perugia, and most importantly to him, his spray can. Ricardo goes to Rome to recover his lost items; failing, he is unable to find a hotel room as the owners believe he is a illegal immigrant, Ricardo is forced to sleep outside, where en encounters again Arturo, who reveals himself to be homosexual.

The next day, at the Canadian Embassy, Ricardo manages to be hosted by another student called Mamadou; Ricardo wakes up besides a Greek woman named Georgia. After recovering his items, Ricardo encounters Marie-Ève, who is also being hosted with a unnamed Spanish student. Ricardo then prepares a romantic dinner as a surprise for Marie-Ève to express his love; she arrives earlier with the Spanish student and Ricardo decides to hide but leaves as the two others are in the middle of a sexual intercourse.

Ricardo and Marie-Ève then have a fight about what happened and Ricardo finally tells her his feelings, as he came only for her and he doesn't care about anything else in Italy, that no ordinary friends would do this. Marie-Ève rejects his feelings kindly but Ricardo, tired, heart-broken and disgusted leaves without a word, leaving Marie-Ève feeling bad. As he departs, he says his goodbye at Georgia (revealing that her real name is Yorda) while she says she will always love him and they will probably meet again sometimes. He also says goodbye to Arturo. As he is traveling back, Ricardo notices a thought of Marie-Ève singing Like A Rolling Stone, and he never saw her after.

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• 1991 at IMDb