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Cannes Journal: Matthias & Maxime

Jason Gorber — Tue, 28 May 2019 15:00:30 +0000

Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan returns to Cannes with Matthias & Maxime, the story of two childhood friends who long have harbored a quiet, unresolved affection for one another. Dolan of late is having a bit of an aesthetic crisis. Exploding on the international scene a decade ago with his Cannes debut I Killed My Mother,...

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TIFF Journal: Boy Erased

Jason Gorber — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 17:00:21 +0000

In Boy Erased, Joel Edgerton directs a coming-of-age drama about conversion therapy, the dubious and often destructive practice of attempting to “cure” homosexuality through a combination of half-baked psychological practices and religious rites. Based in part on the memoir of the same name by Gerrard Conley, the film stars Lucas Hedges as Jared Eamons, the...

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TIFF Journal: ‘It’s Only the End of the World’

Philip Brown — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 18:00:26 +0000

Xavier Dolan is a curious case. He burst onto the international filmmaking scene at 20 and was hailed as an impressive original voice while most folks in his generation were still figuring out if they even liked movies. Since then, he’s made almost a film a year and seems to alternate from living up to...

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‘Elephant Song’ Review: Out of Tune

Philip Brown — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:00:46 +0000

Translating a play to film certainly sounds like an easy task. After all, if the stage-bound material works you should just be able to point some cameras at it and call it a movie, right? Well, it’s not that simple. The mediums are quite different and the immediacy of a live performance tends to create...

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‘Mommy’ Review: Bad Mom, Worse Son

Philip Brown — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:00:59 +0000

Ever since his prize-winning debut at the Cannes Film Festival five years ago (when he was only 20) with ‘I Killed My Mother’, Xavier Dolan has been a new enfant terrible of the art house. Button pushing, stylistically aggressive and obsessed with reviving the artiest of art house conventions, he’s been almost as annoying a...

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