Interview with Ricardo Trogi | In 1995

Ricardo Trogi had already told me this story. It was February 1995 and Ricardo, 24, was getting ready to return home to Quebec after six months of a crazy race. I had been tasked by The Press to interview the eight candidates of The Race destination worlda legendary Radio-Canada show, broadcast between 1988 and 1999.




I already knew, thanks to his tragicomic films, the informed cinephile with a keen sense of setting (“He is without a doubt the most “cinematic” of the competitors”, I wrote about him). I discovered a born storyteller, a verbomotor with colorful language.

Trogi told me that he had taken a plane to the wrong destination (to Cyprus instead of Turkey) and taken an 18-hour bus ride in Vietnam to travel 300 km in the company of chickens and fish. He also criticized a film by an Egyptian filmmaker on a flight to Tunisia, without realizing that he was the person he was talking to.

He had also become bogged down in Cairo in an administrative nightmare worthy of the house that drives people mad. Twelve Tasks of Asterixwhich became the heart of the plot of 1995out July 31. “Is it already long in the film? It was already twice as long in the script! There are steps missing because I couldn’t spend the whole film on it,” the author-filmmaker explains to me.


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