Directed by Xavier Dolan
Additional screening Thursday, April 1 added by popular demand! Director Xavier Dolan’s cri de coeur bracingly exposes the limits of love. Dolan himself plays the lead character, Hubert, a fiery creature full of lust and venom. His burgeoning (homo)sexuality is distinctly and intensely at odds with his mutually parasitic maternal relationship. The more Hubert and his aggravatingly conventional mother (Anne Dorval) realize they cannot continue to live as child and parent, the more they are drawn to each other.
Their intimacy can only manifest through vicious arguments, lending an Albee-esque absurdity to their encounters. Dolan brilliantly situates the violence of the relationship within an exquisite filmic structure, allowing the humor and the pathos of his tale to emerge. A Regent Releasing release.
“This French-Canadian comedy is loaded with empathy and heartache (and zero matricide).” –Time Out New York
2009. Canada. 100 min.
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JUST ADDED! Thu April 1: 6:15 (FSLC) – [NOTE: No rush tickets will be available for this screening]
Sun Apr 4: 7:00 (MoMA)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Xavier Dolan (b. 1989, Montreal, Quebec) first appeared on screen at the age of four; soon after his role in a series of commercials for a chain of pharmacies launched his career. A few years later, he appeared in such popular Canadian television series as Miséricorde, Omertà II, and L’or. He also acted in feature films such as J’en suis, Le marchand de sable, and La Fortresse suspendue. In 2006, he played the character of Julian in Etienne Desrosiers’s short film Miroirs d’été, which was selected by several film festivals, including Berlin, Kiev, San Diego, and Montreal. Recently he acted in Pascal Laugier’s controversial film Martyrs. I Killed My Mother is his first feature film.
