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Winner: Director’s Fortnight - Cannes Film Festival
Winner: Best Canadian Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor - Vancouver Film Critics Circle
I KILLED MY MOTHER (J'ai tué ma mère)
Screening with short film FIVE HOLE: TALES OF HOCKEY EROTICA
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Related Links: View Trailer | Read "Film by Quebec phenom Xavier Dolan debuts in English" on CTV.ca | Read "Canada’s Golden Boy: Introducing Xavier Dolan" in IndieWIRE
Xavier Dolan's debut feature is the Canadian film success story of the year. It received a triumvirate of prizes at the Cannes Film Festival's Quinzaine, has proved a box office smash in Quebec, and was Canada's feature film entry to the Oscars.
At just 17, Dolan penned the script for this semi-autobiographical story of an entertainingly stormy relationship between a mother and her son. Call it therapy.
Hubert (Dolan, now 21) is a precocious, just-out-of-the-closet teenager whose "contempt" for his mother (Anne Dorval in an equally wonderful performance) consumes him. The way she eats, her Ft. Lauderdale shopping finds, and her kitschy décor....every idiosyncrasy is magnified in his eyes, and he’s less than shy about expressing his derision. Hubert’s mother is an old-school master of manipulation and guilt (every parent’s specialty!), who is her son’s match in tongue-lashing. Their exasperation is mutual, and when she’s finally had it and sends Hubert to the aptly titled Our Lady of Sorrows boarding school, it seems that their strained relationship will fall irreparably apart.
Between the outbursts are countless moments of truth and tenderness. Sit up and take note of this poignant, scorching, utterly hilarious film: Dolan is a force to be reckoned with.
Xavier Dolan was born in Montreal and began acting in commercials at the age of four. He has performed in the films J'en suis! (97), Le Marchand de sable (99), La Forteresse suspendue (01) and Martyrs (08). His directorial debut, J'ai tué ma mère (09), which he also wrote and stars in, earned three prizes in the 2009 Directors' Fortnight at Cannes: the Art Cinema Award, the Regards Jeunes and the SACD Prize
"erratic yet sensitive, screaming trouble and talent at high decibels." — Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
"A stunning, semi-autobiographical tour de force... it is a film with the sting of shrewdly observed truth." — Allan Hunter, Screen Daily
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Written by Dave Bidini and featuring an original song by the Rheostatics, Five Hole is a swirling animated trip through hockey’s erotic behind-the-scenes world. Cam Christiansen uses his signature stylized animation, developed through motion capture and video mapping, to create a vibrant and bold musical sketch. – Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo
Cam Christiansen has produced animated short films including work for Bravo!FACT and the National Film Board of Canada. His films have been selected to prestigious film festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film Festival and Sundance. His short film I Have Seen the Future (07) was named to Canada’s Top Ten in 2007 after screening at the Toronto International Film Festival; it went on to win the jury prize for best animated or experimental short at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica (09) is his most recent film.
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