Cinema
90 Days
Giles Walker · 1985
Synopsis
In Montreal, Blue, a shy and sincere bachelor, has chosen a Korean wife from a catalogue, Hyang-Sook. She arrives, and her visa gives them ninety days to decide whether to marry. Meanwhile his friend Alex, a womanizer thrown out by his wife and dropped by his mistress, receives from a young businesswoman, Laura, a proposal as troubling as it is lucrative: to buy his sperm.
Context
The film extends a 1984 docudrama, The Masculine Mystique, which Walker had co-directed with John N. Smith: Blue and Alex come from it, and the director returned to them yet again in a third film. Walker produced it himself with David Wilson, for the federal body. Stefan Wodoslawsky plays Blue, Christine Pak Hyang-Sook, Sam Grana Alex and Fernanda Tavares Laura. It was released in Quebec in French under the title 90 jours pour tomber en amour, and was nominated for several Genie Awards, including best film.
Who it is for
Ninety-nine minutes, in English; a gentle comedy about mail-order marriage and about two lost men.
Prizes and reception
Golden Toucan for best actress at Rio for Christine Pak and Golden Ducat at Mannheim; Brenda Longfellow criticised it for treating arranged marriage as comedy.
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