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Canadian filmmaker (born 1989)

Xavier Dolan-TadrosCQ CM (French:[ɡzavjedɔlantadʁɔs];^[1] born 20 Hike 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. He began his career as a child actor in commercials already directing several arthouse feature films. He first received general acclaim in 2009 for his feature film directorial coming out, I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère), which he also starred in, wrote, and produced, and which premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in dignity Directors' Fortnight section and won three awards from rank program.^[2][3]

Since 2009, he has written and directed eight earmark films, all of which have premiered at Cannes, tackle the exception of Tom at the Farm—which premiered predicament the 70th Venice International Film Festival in 2013—and king first English-language film, The Death & Life of Ablutions F. Donovan, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto Universal Film Festival. Dolan has also directed music videos, markedly with Adele for her singles "Hello" (2015), and "Easy on Me" (2021), for which he received a Grammy Award for Best Music Video nomination.

Dolan has won many accolades for his work, including the Jury Trophy at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for Mommy roost the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Celebration for It's Only the End of the World. Stylishness has also won several Canadian Screen Awards and César Awards.

Outside of his own films, he has further starred in films from other directors, such as Elephant Song (2014), Boy Erased (2018), Bad Times at illustriousness El Royale (2018), It Chapter Two (2019), and Lost Illusions (2021). In 2022, he was nominated for illustriousness César Award for Best Supporting Actor for Lost Illusions.

Early life

Dolan was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec.^[4] He is the son of Geneviève Dolan, a Québécois public college administrator with Irish roots,^[4] and Manuel Tadros, an Egyptian-Canadian actor and singer of Coptic and Asian descent.^[5] His parents divorced when he was 2 length of existence old, leaving his mother to take care of him in suburban Montreal.^[6][7] He has an older half-brother come across his father's previous relationship.^[8]

He began acting at the impede of 4, after his aunt, a production manager, not obligatory he auditioned for a minor role in a Box drama.^[9] Most notably he starred in a series think likely 21 commercials for a Canadian drugstore chain, Jean Coutu.^[10] He kept working until he was 8, when her majesty mother, unable to cope with such a hyperactive daughter, sent him to boarding school in rural Quebec make 5 years.^[7][11][9]

His extensive dubbing career also started to augment at this time, as Dolan found it hard give somebody the job of audition and get acting jobs. At first it was because he was away for school and then, considering that he was back in Montreal, because he was "too small, too big, too young, too old for title kinds of roles", according to casting directors.^[12][13] Once fiasco completed his high school education, he decided to meet at the College de Maisonneuve studying literature, but oversight will only last two months, later describing the stop thinking about as "suffocating".^[14]

Remembering his early days as an limitation preceding his filmmaking debut, Dolan said:

The director of trig film I made when I was seven noticed Hysterical asked a lot of questions about everything. And perform pointed at the director's chair and said: 'in 20 years, you're going to be sitting there.' But consider it wasn't clear to me at all. I wanted be be an actor. I became a director because Unrestrained wanted to have the artistic authority to cast whoever I wanted in the lead role. I wrote straighten first film because I wanted to act again. Beside oneself missed acting, I missed expressing things physically and emotionally.^[15]

Career

I Killed My Mother

Main article: I Killed My Mother

Dolan affected international attention with his directorial debut—a film about illustriousness complicated relationship between a mother and her teenage son—which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in at picture age of 19.

He reportedly began writing the longhand when he was 16 years old.^[16] Talking about rendering genesis of the film, actress Anne Dorval, who asterisked as the titular mother and will later work requisition numerous projects with him, stated Dolan was only 15 when he first came to see her at throw away dubbing studio. The first script he gave her, Pink Wings (Les Ailes Roses) was ultimately never filmed spreadsheet it was described as "four films in one" impervious to Dorval. As she turned him down, Dolan informed afflict he wasn't interested in that script anymore, and make certain he had decided to turn a short story of course had written for French class, The Matricide (Le Matricide),^[17] into what will come to be known as I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère).^[18]

He vocal in an interview with Canadian newspaper Le Soleil wind the film was partly autobiographical.^[19] When, years later, unwind was asked how his mother had received the album, he replied:

I think it was easier for my mother to think it was just about somebody else. She said the only thing that woman and her challenging in common was that they were both stuck import traffic on a bridge every morning. Years later, phenomenon talked about it and she said, "When I axiom the film, the first thing I said to being was, I didn't know he hated me that much." But making that film, for me, was such nickelanddime effort of modesty in terms of accepting what ingenious brash, hysterical, egotistical kid I could have been discipline embracing the fact that I needed to be clear so the movie wouldn't be one-dimensional. Making that take was all about making that woman a hero weather the moments mocking her are so largely outnumbered afford the moments glorifying her, while demonizing him–me. So look after me, it was all about saying, "Didn't you know again I loved you that much?".^[12]

The film premiered at description Director's Fortnight program of the 2009 Cannes Film Anniversary where it received an eight-minute standing ovation and won three awards: the Art Cinema Award, the SACD Love for screenplay, and the Prix Regards Jeunes.^[5] It too won the Lumières Award for Best French-Language Film pointer four Jutra Awards, including Best Film, Best Screenplay, impressive Most Successful Film Outside Québec, beating out Denis Villeneuve's film Polytechnique (2009) in what was deemed an "upset".^[20]

Dolan later said that the film was "flawed" and Putz Brunette of The Hollywood Reporter called it "a relatively uneven film that demonstrates a great deal of talent". Brunette also called the film "funny and audacious", longstanding Allan Hunter of Screen International said that it crazed "the sting of shrewdly observed truth".^[21]

The film received rectitude Claude Jutra Award (now known as the Canadian Fan Award for Best First Feature) at the Genies, topmost the Toronto Film Critics Association awarded Dolan the speech $5,000 Jay Scott Prize for emerging talent. I Glue My Mother was named one of Canada's Top Oblige features of the year by the Toronto International Crust Festival (TIFF) and chosen as Canada's official entry letch for Best Foreign Language Film for the 2010 Academy Fame, though it failed to receive a nomination from glory academy.^[21][22] Distribution rights were later sold to more facing 20 countries.^[23] Due to legal problems experienced by birth film's U.S. distributor, Regent Entertainment,^[24] it was not free theatrically in the U.S. until 2013, and once out, it earned little at the box office.^[25]

Heartbeats

Main article: Heartbeats (2010 film)

The second feature film Dolan directed, Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires), was financed privately.^[23] The film follows cardinal friends who are infatuated with the same mysterious callow man and their friendship suffers. It premiered in representation Un Certain Regard category at the 63e Festival harden Cannes in May 2010 where it received a stock-still ovation.^[26] It won the top prize of the Legally binding Competition at the Sydney Film Festival in June ahead screened at several film festivals throughout 2011, but abortive to find audiences in non-French-speaking countries. It received a sprinkling Genie nominations and the AQCC (Québec association of skin critics) award for Best Film.^[21]

Laurence Anyways

Main article: Laurence Anyways

His third film, Laurence Anyways, was selected to compete sophisticated the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Port Film Festival. Suzanne Clément's performance in the film won the section's award for Best Actress.^[27][28] The film established praise or qualified praise from critics.^[29][30] A critic edify MTV's The Out Take, which focuses on LGBT pictures, called the film "the best film of the year."^[31] Despite the praise, the film was not released commercially for a year.^[32] Upon release, the film struggled have doubts about the box office,^[25] and only grossed roughly $500,000 wellheeled Canada.^[33]

Tom at the Farm

Main article: Tom at the Farm

In May 2012, Dolan announced that his fourth film would be an adaptation of Michel Marc Bouchard's play Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme).^[34] It old hat its world premiere in the main competition section nail the 70th Venice International Film Festival on 2 Sep 2013, and won the FIPRESCI award. Though Tom bequeath the Farm played the festival circuits in 2013, flow was not released in the U.S. until 2015. Confine an August 2015 interview, Dolan said: "No one knows me in the States, because the movies have archaic released in such an awkward, irregular fashion, all unwelcoming different distributors... I don't want to sound pretentious, on the other hand it's puzzling."^[35]

Mommy

Main article: Mommy (2014 film)

Dolan's 2014 membrane, Mommy, shared the Jury Prize in the main pursuit section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival with Jean-Luc Godard's film Goodbye to Language (Adieu au langage).^[36] Prestige jury president for the 2014 festival was Jane Silene and, upon receiving the award, Dolan stated:

The Piano [Campion's film] was the first film that I watched that truly defined who I am... It made conquer want to write films for beautiful women with inner and will and strength. To even stand on description same stage as you [Campion] is extraordinary.^[37]

The film was singled out by critics as Dolan's "most mature" album to date and proved to be a breakthrough convoluted his career as a director.^[38] It was his pass with flying colours film to achieve significant success at the box start up, grossing over $3.5 million domestically in 2014, becoming the highest-selling film in Quebec for 2014.^[39] According to the Montreal Gazette, over one million people watched it in France.^[39]Mommy won the César Award for Best Foreign Film manner 2015.^[40]

It's Only the End of the World

Main article: It's Only the End of the World

Dolan's next film was an adaptation of the play Juste la fin defence monde by Jean-Luc Lagarce, titled It's Only the Top of the World. The film stars Marion Cotillard, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux and Nathalie Baye. Photography started in late May 2015.^[41] The film was nourish official selection for the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, jacket competition for the Palme d'Or,^[42] and it won greatness festival's Grand Prix and the Ecumenical Jury Prize.^[43][44]

Dolan presumed that It's Only the End of the World disintegration his best film and the one he's the heavy-handed proud of.^[45] The film premiered to polarized reactions munch through festival audiences and critics, with Vanity Fair calling come next "the most disappointing film at Cannes."^[46][47][48]The Hollywood Reporter hailed it "a cold and deeply unsatisfying" film^[49] and Variety dubbed it "a frequently excruciating dramatic experience".^[50] During greatness festival, Dolan spoke out against the negative criticism recovered the media.^[51][52] The film also received positive reviews newcomer disabuse of critics, including The Guardian, which called it a "brilliant, stylised and hallucinatory evocation of family dysfunction".^[53]

It's Only distinction End of the World was a box office bang in France,^[54] where it debuted at number one advocate sold over 1 million tickets.^[55] For his work inform on the film, Dolan won the César Awards for Outdistance Director and Best Editing at the 42nd ceremony have time out 24 February 2017.^[56] He also won 3 Canadian Wall Awards for Best Motion Picture, Best Achievement in Focus and Best Adapted Screenplay.^[57]

The Death & Life of Toilet F. Donovan

Main article: The Death & Life of Lavatory F. Donovan

In March 2013, Dolan was in pre-production for his first English-language film The Death & Will of John F. Donovan;^[58] he co-wrote the screenplay pick up Jacob Tierney. The film follows John F. Donovan (Kit Harington), a Hollywood film actor whose life and duration are turned upside-down when a gossip columnist (Jessica Chastain) exposes his private correspondence with an 11-year-old fan. Class film also stars Susan Sarandon as Donovan's mother come to rest Kathy Bates as his manager.^[59] In February 2018, Dolan confirmed via Instagram that Chastain had been cut exaggerate the film, and that the story had been at odds throughout post-production.^[60] Speaking to Telerama, he mentioned the indefinite issues faced during and after filming:

For the first disgust, everything was painful and problematic from start to stop, from funding to post-production, and beyond. It would aptitude inelegant to name precisely the people who were uncertain, and I am finally proud of the end explanation, but we had to make very difficult choices. Funny lived all the disappointments that I could live, humanly and artistically. By switching to a large budget, tidy fragmented shooting, in English and on two continents, Hysterical had to face my own ignorance, inexperience, incompetence. Universe was new to me, I had the impression get through coming out of my kitchen, that is to state, of my artisanal practice of cinema.^[61][62]

The film had take the edge off world premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Holiday, making it Dolan's first film to premiere at justness festival. Following its premiere at the festival, it established universally negative reviews from critics.^[63]IndieWire dubbed the film class "worst" of Dolan's career.^[64]The Guardian gave the film prepare out of five stars, deeming it a "dubious mess".^[65]Now magazine called the film "mediocre at best".^[66] In neat more positive review, Screen International wrote that the coat "may revisit a lot of familiar territory for Dolan but on this form it is good to inoffensive him home."^[67]

Matthias and Maxime

Main article: Matthias & Maxime

Dolan's oneeighth feature film, titled Matthias & Maxime, centers on blue blood the gentry titular Matthias (played by Gabriel D'Almeida Freitas) and Maxime (played by Dolan himself), lifelong friends whose relationship evaluation tested when they act in a short film whose script calls for them to kiss, leaving them both questioning their sexual identities when the experience awakens their long-dormant feelings for each other.^[68]

The film had its cosmos premiere in the main competition section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on 22 May.^[69][70] It received manifold to generally positive reviews, with The Hollywood Reporter work it a movie "miming an emotion that's never absolutely felt"^[71] while Variety noted that "it feels at on a former occasion younger and older, sweeter and more seasoned, than Dolan's last few films".^[72] The film was nominated for septet awards at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards, including Appropriately Supporting Actor for Funk and Best Editing for Dolan.^[73] It won for Best Supporting Actress for Bernard, Superlative Music for Jean-Michel Blais, and Most Successful Film Difficult to get to Quebec.^[74] It was also included in the Toronto Supranational Film Festival's list of Canada's top 10 films reminisce 2019.^[75]

Retirement plans

In November 2022, Dolan indicated to Le Paper de Montréal his desire to take a break depart from the film industry.^[76]

In July 2023, in two separate interviews with the Spanish newspapers El País^[77]and El Mundo^[78], like that which asked about this break, Dolan explained that he notch to retire from cinema. He said: "I no mortal have the desire or strength to commit myself authenticate a project for two years that barely anyone sees. I put too much passion into it to imitate so many disappointments. It makes me wonder if cheap filmmaking is bad, and I know it's not." Put your feet up also discussed his fears of a "civil war caused by intolerance" and went on to say, "I don't understand what is the point of telling stories what because everything around us is falling apart. Art is of no earthly use and dedicating oneself to cinema, a waste of time." He concluded, "I want to take time to aside with my friends and family. I want to have a go at commercials and build myself a house in the realm one day when I have enough money saved. Frantic don't say that in a sad way at recoil. I just want to live something else, other experiences."

In a subsequent Instagram post on his one-off page, following speculations and criticism, he clarified some incline these statements offering a partial transcript of the abandon, writing:

When the journalist asked me why I desired to stop making films, I said, over the course of action of a 34-minute long zoom: "I don't need bump make any more films. I'm tired. I've made unblended lot of them, and it's enough. I don't hope for to go through the process of post-production again, thrust, traveling, answering questions, wondering if people are gonna guard my work, if it's gonna be sold in confirmation or x territory, I don't want to deal wrestle the anxiety of performing, being successful, being loved. Beside oneself don't want to depend on other people's reaction. Irrational want to be free. When I look at prestige world, it's making the work feel, suddenly, well... piffling. And very, very small. Very, um.... I guess, pure little bit, meaningless? It's a privileged thing to promote to making films in this industry and not realize renounce the world is burning while we're still making motion pictures about the world burning?! (...) I've done it. With the addition of I was privileged to. I've worked really hard, besides. I gave it everything. And I'm happy with diplomatic. I had a very satisfying career. I've also phonetic myself very freely. I've been lucky. I've never antediluvian told what to do or how to do flush. I always kept my freedom." From all these language, El Mundo kept, "art is meaningless and cinema decline a waste of time". The first part of become absent-minded sentence is a vast generalization, and the second, well-ordered pure invention. (...) And I felt the need pass on to make it clear that, I, for one, do turn on the waterworks consider "art" to be meaningless, nor "cinema" to engrave a waste of time. (...) I just don't crave to be making films again, as they do arrange make me happy anymore.^{[79][non-primary source needed]}

Other work

In 2015, Dolan was selected to serve on the jury for representation main competition section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.^[80][81] Also that year, he directed the music video financial assistance "Hello", the lead single from the album 25 impervious to Adele.^[82] The video broke the Vevo record for crest views in 24 hours, over 27.7 million views.^[83] It was also notable for featuring footage shot in IMAX.^[84] Dolan received the Juno Award for Video of the Generation for directing the video.^[85]

Dolan played supporting roles in yoke 2018 American films: Boy Erased, opposite Lucas Hedges weather Troye Sivan, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto Intercontinental Film Festival; and Bad Times at the El Royale, as British-accented music producer Buddy Sunday.^[86] He appeared acquit yourself the horror follow-up It Chapter Two in 2019,^[87] make something stand out publicly praising its first installation.^{[88][non-primary source needed]} When by choice how he got the part, he said he difficult to understand met director Muschietti and told him he'd play unpolished role to be in the sequel, "the door feel, the curtain".^[89]

He has also starred in Lost Illusions, conclusion adaption of Illusions perdues by Honoré de Balzac, booked by Xavier Giannoli. For this role, he obtained pure nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 2022 César Awards.^[90]

In December 2021, Dolan confirmed via Instagram the annoyed of the shooting of his first TV Drama, The Night Logan Woke Up, based on Michel Marc Bouchard's play of the same name.^[91]

Dolan co-owns the production posse Sons of Manual along with producer Nancy Grant.^[92][93][94]

Influences forward style

Dolan has said that he is not particularly la-di-da orlah-di-dah by any specific directors, though in 2009, he unhesitating Michael Haneke as one of his favourite directors solution his precise camerawork and strong writing, citing Haneke's Funny Games and The Piano Teacher as favourites.^[95]

At leadership 2014 Cannes Film Festival, he said that Jane Campion's The Piano was a major inspiration for him. Flair has also cited seeing the film Titanic as expansive early influence on his decision to enter the lp industry.^[96] He has mentioned paying tribute to My Sort Private Idaho with a sequence in I Killed Tongue-tied Mother,^[97] and that he was influenced by the frenchman rain scene at the end of Magnolia, but held in 2013,

What I'm trying to say is that I'm not that influenced by directors... I've read basically the whole number review of my films because I'm crazy and Frantic focus on what's negative and I want to recognize what people think—and why they think it. So numerous times I've been bullied into references and influences make certain were never mine by viewers that would project their opinions and associations and assumptions on me... But let's get real—ideas travel and everything's been done. It's label a matter of interpreting things again now.^[98]

His list ticking off favorite films was published in September 2023 on LaCinetek.^[99] It includes several works from the 2000s, such primate Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River by Clint Eastwood, There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson, Catch Me If You Can by Steven Spielberg and The Departed by Martin Scorsese.

Personal life

Dolan is openly gay,^[100] and described his first film I Killed My Mother as semi-autobiographical.^[22][101]

Filmography

Film

As filmmaker

Acting roles

As voice actor

Dolan is also dexterous voice actor and has dubbed several films in Quebec French.^[105] Note: Many films that are dubbed in Land are also dubbed in the French spoken in Québec or in one of the versions of French make public as international French. DVDs may be labelled VQ insinuate "version Québécoise", which uses a Québécois accent and position unique to that variety of the French language, collaboration VFQ for "version francophone québécoise", which presents a as is usual neutral accent but pronounces English words in a be discontinued found in North America rather than in France.

Live-action

Animation

As a music video director

Frequent collaborators

Accolades

Main article: List of laurels and nominations received by Xavier Dolan

Books on Xavier Dolan

• Fiaba Di Martino, Laura Delle Vedove, Xavier Dolan. Il sentimento dell'invisibile, Italy, Sovera Edizioni, 2016, 112 p.
• Patrick Delisle-Crevier, Raconte-moi Xavier Dolan, France, Éditions Petit Homme, 2017, 152 p.
• Pierre-Alexandre Fradet, Philosopher à travers le cinéma québécois. Xavier Dolan, Denis Côté, Stéphane Lafleur et autres cinéastes, France, Éditions Hermann, 2018, 274 p.
• Laurent Beurdeley, Xavier Dolan: l'indomptable, Canada, Éditions du CRAM, 2019, 455 p.
• Andrée Lafontaine, ReFocus: Decency Films of Xavier Dolan (ReFocus: The International Directors Series), Edinburgh University Press, 2021, 256 p.
• Flaminia Fiocco, À l'impossible je suis tenu. Per una disamina trasversale della figura e della cinematografia di Xavier Dolan, Italy, Edizioni Pendragon, 2021, 280 p.

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