i really can't complain too much about a movie that has lea seydoux dancing to the numa numa song in dolphin shorts

me, giving you a tour of my house that resides up xavier dolan's ass: hi mtv welcome to my crib

Less of a journey/more compact Dolan but just as compelling as the rest of his filmography; a powerful investigation of familial dysfunction and the inability to communicate in the face of stressful or foreign situations. With that being said, I'm honestly surprised that this family didn't start chopping up and cannabilizing one another. MVP: Vincent Cassel.

Congrats to Xavier Dolan, who at 27 has already reached the "let's look back fondly on his older work" stage of his career.

xavier............sweetie..........what is this.....

le cinéma de shout

Well, watching this on the eve of dinner with my parents who I'm lucky/unlucky to see once a year was an interesting idea. The ending left me shook, really, but maybe I would've appreciated the dialogue more if I understood French.

they all need to fucking chill

Young Xavier Dolan returns again to exhilarate and exasperate critics and audiences at Cannes. But isn’t that what Cannes is for? From the director of Mommy comes a film about relationships so intense and virulent that they hardly ring true, yet possessing a lyrical and visual poetry that is so spellbinding you cannot look away.

022/200

me to Xavier Dolan

Oh mon Dieu... beautiful cinematography and close-ups of Gaspard Ulliel's eyes might be the only things I needed right now.

Loved it in a way that's not really hinged on analysis or the normal frames of filmmaking. I think it spoke to me personally more than anything, and I'm probably blind to its technical shortcomings unless I (can bear to) watch it a second time. Adored the music and the moments of relief amongst the claustrophobic knot of the family unit. Felt nostalgic and forward at the same time, like it took a piece of the cycle of a family's life and put it in 90 minutes. At the beginning I thought I wanted concrete answers to my questions about the details of Louis life, but as the film progressed it was less about the details and more so the interactions.

I feel like I know exactly what happened without it having explicitly spelt out. Few films can do that, I think.

(Xavier Dolan)

Thuis gezien.
Hoewel ik veel bewondering voor Mommy had, was het ook een heel moeilijke film om te zien. Van deze film heb ik meer kunnen genieten, ongelofelijke cast, verbluffend. Het enige wat ik Dolan in Mommy verweet was naar overdaad/decadentie te neigen, opnieuw doet hij dit hier op een andere manier. Je kunt hem eigenlijk heel veel verwijten, maar ik doe dat toch niet, want hij heeft me overtuigd ervan te houden.

Favoriete scene is die met zijn broer in de auto. Een enorme prestatie. Vincent Cassel is ongelofelijk.

(initieel was ik niet mee met de film, maarja dat was initieel)

Xavier Dolan (Mommy) gathered his most star-studded cast for this film including Lea Seydoux (Spectre), Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose), Natalie Baye (Catch Me If You Can), Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) and Gaspard Ulliel (Hannibal) which happens to be one of his weakest (that I have seen). I still found it engrossing and the conversations between the cast of characters compelling but it never reaches the impactful level of either Mommy or I Killed My Mother (which Dolan directed at the ripe old age of 20).

Fans of either family dramas or Dolan enthusiasts will like this, but others ... probably not so much as it isn't a light watch.

Cotillard does her thing again ... and she's subtle and sublim while Seydoux continues to expand her talents and is becoming one of my favorite French exports (after Cotillard and Ludivine Sagnier that is).