“To me, music is the soul of the film,” Xavier Dolan said in an interview with Slant Magazine in 2012, just as his third feature Laurence Anyways was about to makes it premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. More than most directors, it seems, Dolan seems to blur the …
The second outing for directer Xavier Dolan has proved to not only dispel the neurotic and vapid curse of the sophomore jinx, but has once again melded all aspects plot, character, music and wit into a divine and humourous journey through the escapades and absurdities of naive love. The complexities of emotion, sex and self …
“There’s plenty of proof here that given a screenplay with real substance rather than just a bare-bones structure, Dolan could turn out to be a truly impressive independent film maker…” Heartbeats (Les Amours Imaginaires) Directed by Xavier Dolan Written, directed and starring Xavier Dolan, whose previous directing credit was the acclaimed I Killed My Mother …
With a mostly disappointing summer season (and that includes you Cannes Film Festival) its time to quit complaining and start looking forward. There is a multitude of new directors to watch our for and some surprisingly daring studio fare. Many of the films on the list are just being speculated to be released by the end of …