Tom at the Farm

2013 ‘Tom à la ferme’ Directed by Xavier Dolan

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.

Xavier Dolan Pierre-Yves Cardinal Lise Roy Evelyne Brochu Manuel Tadros Jacques Lavallée Anne Caron Mélodie Simard Olivier Morin Johanne Léveillé Mathieu Roy Caleb Landry Jones

Alternative Title

탐엣더팜

drama mystery thriller

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Popular reviews

Review by Kairit ★★★½ 6

tom was at the farm
Review by andrea🌹 ★★★ 1

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
Review by adrianbalboa ★★★★ 3

this was the first movie i ever put on my watchlist after joining letterboxd about 4 years ago so 2019 really is about making moves!! watch out, Certain Women, im comin for ya next!
anyways really appreciate this movie for featuring the trifecta of lgbt culture. im talking of course about wearing a flannel, hoodie, and leather jacket at the same time
Review by Lucy ★★★½ 1

my head is so far up xavier dolan's ass that it's stuck
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 8

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…
Review by Jyn ★★★½

i cant believe xavier dolan made a movie for my demographic: depressed gays with Bad Hair
Review by davidehrlich ★★★½ 1

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…
Review by lauren ★★★★ 6

“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..
Review by Marian ★★★½ 2

the fact that this hairstyle existed in the year of our god 2013
Review by amaya ★★★★ 4

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
Review by charlotte ★★★★

francis spitting on tom in the field....... y'all call this a date?
Review by jarod ★★★½

the INTERNATIONAL implications of xavier dolan casting himself in a role where he would be slapped/choked by pierre-yves cardinal... yeah me too

Recent reviews

Review by f l pe ★★★★

oh wow so im actually feeling really conflicted about this movie.. one thing's for sure tho: i sure as hell felt a LOT of things while watching this.. my problem is that i don't know if they were all necessarily good. tom à la ferme is completely whack lemme tell u and i don't really know how i feel about all of the horror/suspense part of the homophobic/mlm closeted guy's story. some music and some scenes just felt weird (wtf was that when tom was having a shower chile..). i found myself constantly pausing the movie because it was getting crazy as fuck and i just couldn't stand still in my chair. also that scene in the bathroom.. that hit…
Review by konradson ★★★★

His hair is spaghetti.
Review by Mario ★★★★

I was waiting for that ethereal Dolan to kick in but in the end I was not dissapointed.
Review by Molartuna ★★★½

Ish a good movie
Review by DevWearsPrada ★★★★

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Review by ludivine ★★★★

xavier dolan never disappoints!
Review by Alberto Ramos Falconer ★★★★½

Dolan is good for creating tension
Review by timotheetiancha ★★★

What a creepy family
Review by george ★★★

A competently made but uninteresting thriller.
Review by inesboughdadi ★★

Ayant pourtant adoré les quelques films de Xavier Dolan que j’ai pu voir, celui-ci m’a particulièrement déçu.
Les personnages ne sont pas attachants et leurs intentions sont confuses, ce qui fait que l’on décroche très rapidement. La persistance de Tom à vouloir absolument rester chez la famille du défunt devient très vite irritante, de même que l’aspect macho alpha du grand frère.
Ensuite, l’ambiance oppressante et mystérieuse de la ferme est assez stéréotypée. La musique qui accompagne les scènes angoissantes ne fait qu’accentuer le cliché du film d’horreur de série B.
Finalement, la narration perd son fil pour en arriver à un départ spontané de Tom qui reste non seulement hanté par le décès de son premier amour, mais aussi par son grand frère sado-masochiste.
Review by Aremcfly ★★★

me @ tom: please love yourself a little bit
Review by NATH ★★★½

So, a Xavier dolan's film without Anne Dorval and Suzanne clément?? What??