‘Fondi ’91’ – the city of Fondi deserves a much better film

Starting at the Royal this week is the new coming of age story from Canadian filmmaker Dev Khanna and Degrassi graduate Raymond Ablack, Fondi ’91. Pretty early on the audience realizes that we are experiencing something spectacularly bad unspooling in front of our eyes. It’s sad that when we should be celebrating and forwarding Canadian cinema and film makers, director Khanna is Toronto based, that such a sloppy effort is around to help defend the stereotype that all film from Canada is bad.

Fondi ’91

Starring: Raymond Ablack, Mylène St-Sauveur, Serena Iansiti, Chris Pereira, Kyle Kirkpatrick, Thomas Wesson, Remo Girone

Written by André Bharti, Lenny Foreht, Dev Khanna, A. Sinha

Directed by Dev Khanna

Set against a background of lost innocence, youthful frivolity and dark moral themes, Fondi ‘91 follows the lustful adventures of a Jersey-based high school soccer team’s two week trip to Europe. Shot on location in Fondi, Italy, the team gets slaughtered during their on field (but not shown) matches as they are too caught up in scoring with the Italian ladies.  (more…)

July 14, 2013 | Categories: Reviews, Theatrical | Tags: Chris Pereira, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Dev Khanna, Fondi, Fondi 91, Jersey, Kyle Kirkpatrick, Mylène St-Sauveur, Raymond Ablack, Remo Girone, Serena Iansiti, Thomas Wesson, Toronto | Leave a comment