1995

In 1994, Ricardo Trogi (Jean-Carl Boucher) gave up his dream of becoming a filmmaker.

However, a phone call rekindled the young man’s artistic flame, and he was selected as one of the finalists in the 1994-95 edition of La Course, The Race around the world, that the entire country followed.

Having just landed in Egypt and going through a number of difficulties to complete one of his reports, Ricardo questions many things, including his own nature.

Interspersed with fever dreams beneath the insect tent inside his Cairo honeymoon suite, personal revenge fantasies and popular culture references to Aerosmith and Back to the Future, Trogi’s 1995 is a gamboling romp across Egypt that reacquaints us with a character and a filmmaker who remains intimately familiar.

This Canadian comedy film is written and directed by the actual Ricardo Trogi and is the fourth film in his semi-autobiographical series after 1981, 1987 and 1991.

Trogi is recognized as a Québécois filmmaker who (despite recent Netflix distributions) makes films for and about Quebec.

Comedy
Canada (French) 2h