Ireland Blue Book

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Ireland Blue Book
French Irlande cahier bleu
Directed by Olivier Godin
Written byOlivier Godin
Produced byAmélie Tremblay
Olivier Godin
StarringEmery Habwineza
Florence Blain Mbaye
Étienne Pilon
Ève Duranceau
CinematographyRenaud Després-Larose
Edited byOlivier Godin
Production
company
Palabres
Release date
Running time
82 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Ireland Blue Book (French : Irlande cahier bleu) is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Olivier Godin and released in 2023. [1] The film stars Emery Habwineza as Ducarmel, a firefighter and basketball player who has fantastical dreams about being sent on an intergalactic mission in outer space when he falls asleep at night. [2]

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The cast also includes Étienne Pilon, Florence Blain Mbaye, Ève Duranceau, Stéphane Crête, Jean-Marc Dalpé, Johanna Nutter, François-Simon Poirier, Charlotte Aubin, Rawam Sleiman, Philomène Lévesque-Rainville, Élia Dassi, Annie Darisse-Desbiens, Suzanne Beth, Anne Lapierre, Josée Laviolette, Pierre Mailloux and Samer Najari in supporting roles. [3]

Production

Ducarmel previously appeared, also played by Habwineza, as a minor supporting character in Godin's previous film There Are No False Undertakings (Il n'y a pas de faux métier). [4]

Distribution

The film premiered in July 2023 at the Fantasia International Film Festival, [5] where it was named the winner of the Camera Lucida award from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma. [6]

It went into commercial distribution in September 2023. [2]

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