Director
Olivier Godin
Writer
Olivier Godin
Cast
Florence Blain-Mbaye, Stéphane Crête, Ève Duranceau, Emery Habwineza, Étienne Pilon
Cinematographer
Renaud Després-Larose
Editor
Olivier Godin
Special Effects
Virginie Bachand
contact
Olivier Godin
Official website
Ducarmel (Emery Habwineza) is an anachronistic firefighter, a quotidian poet, and an expert soup-maker in his spare time. He also happens to play in a competitive mixed basketball league. There’s only one problem to his life: finding a babysitter to look after his daughter. Moreover, when he dozes off in front of the television in the evening, he dreams… a little too forcefully. In the bizarre, future world of his dreams, under the sign of a nebulous cabbage, he is an alcoholic. Basketball matches unfold on distant planets, a beguiling blue book reigns above all, and the prospect of love looms on the horizon. In the bizarre, future world of his dreams, he is the best basketball player of them all.
Carried by magnificent, hazy 16mm photography as well as an exemplary cast bringing together the talents of Florence Blain-Mbaye, Stéphane Crête, and Ève Duranceau, IRELAND BLUE BOOK is Olivier Godin’s most recent creation, following THERE ARE NO FALSE UNDERTAKINGS and THE ART OF SPEECH. One of the great iconoclasts of contemporary Quebec cinema, he offers here a unique vision that alternates between dreamy drama and cutting comedy, between the duty of the firefighter and that of the sportsman. Godin’s world is one of poetic, intriguing outlines, of lights and shadows where one’s subtle desires for glory — those one can’t admit during daytime — are gleaned and explored, desires which take on their fullest meaning in the secret life that is the night. – Ariel Esteban Cayer
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