Filmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when he was 11 years old.
Acting
Jean-Carl Boucher's committed awkwardness—physically painful to witness.
Production
Obsessive period detail: every poster, tracksuit, and synth hit lands.
Writing
Trogi weaponizes his own humiliations with zero sentimentality.
Director
Ricardo Trogi
Jean-Carl Boucher
Ricardo
Claudio Colangelo
Benito
Sandrine Bisson
Claudette
Gabriel Maillé
Jérôme
Élizabeth Adam
Anne Tremblay
Rose Adam
Nadia
Marjolaine Lemieux
Aline
Claude-Michel Bleau
Nazi Sergeant
Claude Despins
Anne's Father
Pierre Mailloux
School Principal
Jean-Robert Bourdage
Lawyer
Jean-François Boudreau
Newspaper Guy
Léo Caron
Plante
Simone Chevalot
School Secretary
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Trogi's trilogy (1981, 1987, 1991) maps Quebec's Quiet Revolution through working-class Italian-Canadian eyes—this is the most universally mortifying entry.
The real Ricardo Trogi briefly appears as the moving truck driver who witnesses young Ricardo's first public humiliation.
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