Synopsis
What you don't know will hurt you
A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.
2013 ‘Tom à la ferme’ Directed by Xavier Dolan
A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.
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this movie's Gays Who Drive Cinematic Universe membership is revoked because according to the commentary xavier dolan doesn't have a driver's license and everyone was terrified whenever he was driving
i cant believe xavier dolan made a movie for my demographic: depressed gays with Bad Hair
the INTERNATIONAL implications of xavier dolan casting himself in a role where he would be slapped/choked by pierre-yves cardinal... yeah me too
Okay so yeah, that solidifies Xavier Dolan as being one of my very favorite working directors, if not my absolute favorite. The first film of his that I saw was his debut feature I Killed My Mother, which I watched sort of on a whim after stumbling across it on Netflix Instant. I was shocked to discover that, in his teens, Dolan was already able to portray the dynamics of a difficult mother-son relationship more realistically than any other film I'd seen in my life (at least for me). He was able to do this mostly through dialogue, character nuance and and strong chemistry between himself and the always wonderful Anne Dorval.
Then, about a year ago (in May of…
no idea why but every time i watch a xavier dolan movie, my brain tells itself to expect a cute light-hearted romance and every time i end up crying can i learn my lesson please? not cute
“How was work today?"
"It was good but tom’s dead boyfriend’s brother hit him."
“And where were you?"
"I was over on the bench."
“And what did you do?"
“Nothing. I was over on the bench."
“But you saw what happened?"
“Yeah, cause I was over on the bench."
“So you saw what happened and you did nothing?"
"Yeah cause I was sitting over on the bench."
“Let me ask you this. In Nazi Germany..
With “Laurence Anyways”, famously young and impressively pompadoured Québécois filmmaker Xavier Dolan proved that he was unafraid to embrace the cosmic drama inside the human heart, his epic three-hour opus believably extrapolating the intimate emotional developments of a challenged couple into the stuff of grand and gaudy opera. Every scene ends with tears and every tear is an aria unto itself, the subtitles like a libretto in blips.
Certainly his (anyone’s?) most extravagant film and arguably still his best, “Laurence Anyways” offers so much from Dolan’s imagination that it leaves almost nothing to ours, observing heartbreak with the same panoptic rigor with which Jeremy Bentham hoped to observe prisoners. The comparatively stark aesthetic of “Tom at the Farm” would be…