Synopsis
An Irish gangster living in Houston Texas falls in love with a suicidal woman. Both are coming out of an exhausting relationship and neither is coping very well. It's clear that they both need each other to survive. But for how long ?
Festivals
- 26e Filmfest Dresden International Short Film Festival, Allemagne, 2014
- 18e Regard sur le court métrage du Saguenay, Chicoutimi, Québec, 2014
- 32e Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Montréal, Québec, 2014
- 42e Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montréal, Québec, 2013
Director: Olivier Godin
Script: Olivier Godin
Cast: Brian Wright, Tamara Brown, Johanna Nutter, Rose-Maïté Erkoreka, and Etienne Pilon
DOP: Miryam Charles
Sound design: Bruno Colpron and Luc Boudrias
Editing: Theodore Goodwin
Art direction: Maxime Brouillet
Costumes: Maxime Brouillet
Original music: Adam Kinner
Production: Chimney Two
Producers: Miryam Charles and Michael Yaroshevksy
Version
- English
- French subtitles
Format
- DCP, 1:66, 2K, 5.1 sound
- .mov digital file, H264
Olivier Godin studied cinema at Ahuntsic College, then at Concordia University. His short films La Boutique de Forge (2012) and Bengal Fire (2014) each won the award for best Canadian short film at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. In 2013, she received the CALQ Prize for Full Love, elected best work of art and experimentation. In 2014, a first retrospective of his work was presented at the Cinémathèque Québécoise, the same year that Nouvelles, Nouvelles, his highly acclaimed second feature film, was released. He is also the author of the feature films Les arts de la parole (2016), Waiting for April (2018) and There is no false profession (2020). Ireland Blue Notebook is his sixth feature film.
