1991

Ricardo Trogi's 2018 Quebec film is the third part of an autobiographical trilogy drawn from the director's own life. In 1991 Ricardo, twenty-one, travels alone to Europe, not to see the great capitals but to reach a girl studying in Italy. The journey is told not as a story of discovery but as the collapse of the lies youth tells itself. Trogi narrates in his own voice and mocks his younger self throughout; that distance is what works best. Jean-Carl Boucher plays the same character across all three films and carries the maturing. It can be watched without the others, though the emotional effect diminishes. It is among the best-known examples of this vein of personal comedy in Quebec cinema. Who it's for: viewers who like Quebec cinema, autobiographical comedy and road films. Who it's not for: anyone troubled by the protagonist's obsessive behaviour, or who has not seen the first two films and will miss the context.