Laurence Anyways
2013 Directed by Xavier Dolan
Synopsis
Ce que femme veut...
Set in the 1980s and 1990s, a man tries to salvage his relationship with his fiancée after revealing to her his aspirations of becoming a woman. This is the story of a wild and unusual love.
Cast
Studio
Popular reviews
More-
στην τρίτη πράξη της δημιουργίας του φανταστικού του κόσμου ο xavier<3(πάντα με καρδούλα)φτάνει σε επίπεδα που ούτε εγώ δεν περίμενα ότι θα μπορούσε να φτάσει τόσο σύντομα.
απαιτώ από το #team_dolan να καθιερωθεί και το "suzanne<3clément"
όσο εξαιρετικός κι αν ήταν ο poupaud...δεν μπορώ να μην σκέφτομαι που θα φτανε τον χαρακτήρα ο garrel.
It's Xavier<3, anyways
-
"You guys like emotion? Good, cause HERE'S ALL THE FUCKING EMOTION IN THE WORLD! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
Xavier Dolan, aged twenty-fucking-three.
-
Laurence Anyways is a film about exteriors. It is a film about reconciling your insides to your outsides. Everybody tackles this issue in their life, usually in their teenage years. What sets Dolan's Laurence Anyways is a film about exteriors. It is a film about reconciling your insides to your outsides. Everybody tackles this issue in their life, usually in their teenage years. What sets Dolan's film apart is that not every body has to deal with this interior/exterior alignment.
Laurence's (lengthy) journey to womanhood is carried out in the public's line of sight and the human gaze is Dolan's first preoccupation. The film opens with a slo-mo introduction to Laurence as she struts though the misty streets, yet we…
-
Ο εγκέφαλός μου κάνει πάρτυ και τα ποτά φτιάχνει και σερβίρει ο Xavier Dolan.
-
New directors often have a special sincerity about them. They want to do their best so they will often load the image with symbolism and think each take through, both to tell their story as well as possible but also to flex their muscles. Tarkovsky did it in Ivan's Childhood, Orson Welles did it in Citizen Kane and so on and so on. This is the 4th film by Xavier Dolan (as a director) and is has the same fascinating energy as the best works of newcomers. You could use this movie as a text book in film language; the editing, the framing, use of color, use of music... Everything is by the book but also more than that. Maybe…
-
Πρέπει να είναι η πρώτη ταινία που διαρκεί 3 ώρες και δε βαρέθηκα πουθενά χωρίς να ταυτιστώ κάπου με την ιστορία. Το σινεμά του Dolan είναι τόσο έντονο και ασυνήθιστο που δημιουργεί κάποιες τρομερά συναισθηματικά φορτισμένες εικόνες μέσα στις οποίες απλά αφήνεσαι. Ειδικά εκεί μετά την τελευταία σκηνή κοίταζα σαν χαμένος τους τίτλους τέλους για κανά πεντάλεπτο. Εν πάση περιπτώσει, το σινεμά που θέλουμε να βλέπουμε.
Recent reviews
More-
dolan finally gets short of breath, losing his overall audio-visual style within the 160 minutes (actually already after the first 10) in the benefit of the story to tell. never expected dolan to get out of his style without substance cinema magic show, but here it just bored the hell out of me. nearly a walkout.
-
Ok, so this will need several viewings, discussions, readings, analysis to fully appreciate it. One thing is for sure, it's the best film Xavier Dolan has made in his precocious career. A multilayered, deeply dramatic and human, truthful, rich story about life itself. To search for flaws is to fool yourself since the experience of watching it is what's important. What stays with you days after you first saw it. Dolan's lyric style makes the film visually wonderful. So dreamy and fascinating.
Epic isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind. -
Laurence Anyways sees writer/director Xavier Dolan substitute his signature flair for actual substance. With an almost obnoxiously overblown running time, Dolan's latest effort is a hard pill to swallow at times. This is because the film focuses far more on the "journey" rather than the "destination"; and whilst his more recognisable visual style creeps in, it never pulls focus or proves a distraction. Armed with a powerfully moving and organic script, electrifying and raw performances from both leads and a pulsating soundtrack marked by the times, Laurence Anyways is a memorable, yet stylish affair.
-
Going to keep it nice and simple, as I do best. I adore this film. So thank you, Xavier Dolan.
-
Ο εγκέφαλός μου κάνει πάρτυ και τα ποτά φτιάχνει και σερβίρει ο Xavier Dolan.
-
Laurence (Melvil Poupaud) is a 35 year-old schoolteacher who feels like he has been living his life in the wrong body. His decision to live the rest of his life as a woman is greeted with shock by his long-term girlfriend Fred (Suzanne Clement), but the couple attempt to make a go of things anyway despite some fierce opposition from friends, family and strangers. We trace 10 years of Laurence and Fred’s lives together over a whopping 160-minute running time.
It’s difficult to get a handle on Xavier Dolan’s master plan for the picture. The director’s voice is discordant, mixing styles from documentary realism to some wonderful stylistic flourishes that bring to mind the immaculate framing of Stanley Kubrick, in…
-
New directors often have a special sincerity about them. They want to do their best so they will often load the image with symbolism and think each take through, both to tell their story as well as possible but also to flex their muscles. Tarkovsky did it in Ivan's Childhood, Orson Welles did it in Citizen Kane and so on and so on. This is the 4th film by Xavier Dolan (as a director) and is has the same fascinating energy as the best works of newcomers. You could use this movie as a text book in film language; the editing, the framing, use of color, use of music... Everything is by the book but also more than that. Maybe…
-
Xavier Dolan finally moves away from the inspirations of Wong Kar Wai and Pedro Almodovar to craft a film that is vibrantly, thrillingly his own. Spanning 10 years, LAURENCE ANYWAYS follows a man who reveals to his wife that he is transgendered and wants to transition into a woman, and the love story that continues on for them despite giant obstacles. Dolan's films have always been extremely personal, but almost self consciously devoted to outside influences. Here, Dolan finally asserts his own, unique directorial voice, and the result is a stylish and deeply moving tale of uncommon love.
-
Aesthetics are paramount in this tale of male-to-female transformation ("do looks matter to you?" - "does air matter to the lungs?") which is why all the explosions of color and flamboyant backdrops and slow-motion sequences aren't just showy distractions. They're realizations of the drive to match external appearance with internal desire, the same urge that motivates Laurence to risk everything for the dream of a facade which reflects his true feelings. It's for this reason that the easy nostalgia of the '80s aesthetic doesn’t come off as egregious; it's an organic extension of those same aesthetic impulses, exploring the way certain coded images make us feel, which ties back into Dolan’s focus on the ideal of self-representation. He could stand to take it a little easier on the nauseating handheld reaction shots, however.