Ireland Blue Book | |
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French | Irlande cahier bleu |
Directed by | Olivier Godin |
Written by | Olivier Godin |
Produced by | Amélie Tremblay Olivier Godin |
Starring | Emery Habwineza Florence Blain Mbaye Étienne Pilon Ève Duranceau |
Cinematography | Renaud Després-Larose |
Edited by | Olivier Godin |
Production company | Palabres |
Release date |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | French |
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]
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]
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]
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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