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Persona of Interest: “Tom at the Farm”
In a tense scene in writer-director Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm, the hulking Francis (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), his muscular form not hidden by his suit, pushes his deceased brother’s diminutive boyfriend Tom (Dolan), to the corner of a bathroom stall. They ar...
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“Mommy”
Xavier Dolan has a message for his detractors: “Eat my shorts.”
Literally, it’s right there in the opening frame of the 25-year-old French-Canadian’s new film, Mommy: a close-up on a teenage boy’s shiny pair of boxers, hanging in the breeze on a suburban Qu...
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Fade to Red: The Desire of Xavier Dolan
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it, it turned to dust in my hand.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Words fly fast and furiou...
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Video Essay: Style as Substance – The Style of Xavier Dolan
For the past year or so, I've vehemently defended the work of Xavier Dolan, the 25-year-old Quebecois director who recently won the Cannes Jury Prize for his fifth film, Mommy. The arguments against him are usually the same: his films are mawkish and maudlin, ...
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First Trailer for Cannes Jury Prize Winner, Xavier Dolan’s ‘Mommy’
One of the most buzzed about films at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival was Xavier Dolan's Mommy. At only 25 years of age, Xavier Dolan shared one of the fest's most prestigious awards, the Jury Prize, with none other than Jean Luc-Godard. The film will be dispute...
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Dardennes, Dolan and Berlinale Winner the Highlights of the 2014 Sydney Film Festival
This past Sunday, the 61st annual edition of the Sydney Film Festival came to a close. Of the more than 180 films that screened at the festival, a dozen fought it out in the Official Competition, with the $61,000 prize eventually going to Luc and Jean-Pierre D...
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