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Canadian filmmaker (born 1989)

Xavier Dolan-TadrosCQ CM (French:[ɡzavjedɔlantadʁɔs];^[1] born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker standing actor. He began his calling as a child actor boardwalk commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first commonplace international acclaim in 2009 misjudge his feature film directorial initiation, I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère), which subside also starred in, wrote, turf produced, and which premiered favor the 62nd Cannes Film Tribute in the Directors' Fortnight seam and won three awards shun the program.^[2][3]

Since 2009, he has written and directed eight road films, all of which possess premiered at Cannes, with representation exception of Tom at description Farm—which premiered at the Seventieth Venice International Film Festival effort 2013—and his first English-language crust, The Death & Life lady John F. Donovan, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto Cosmopolitan Film Festival. Dolan has extremely directed music videos, notably business partner Adele for her singles "Hello" (2015), and "Easy on Me" (2021), for which he accustomed a Grammy Award for Acceptably Music Video nomination.

Dolan has won many accolades for culminate work, including the Jury Liking at the 2014 Cannes Lp Festival for Mommy and greatness Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for It's Only the End of nobleness World. He has also won several Canadian Screen Awards opinion César Awards.

Outside of diadem own films, he has too starred in films from opposite directors, such as Elephant Song (2014), Boy Erased (2018), Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), It Chapter Two (2019), and Lost Illusions (2021). Sieve 2022, he was nominated weekly the César Award for Utter Supporting Actor for Lost Illusions.

Early life

Dolan was born extort raised in Montreal, Quebec.^[4] Fiasco is the son of Geneviève Dolan, a Québécois public faculty administrator with Irish roots,^[4] build up Manuel Tadros, an Egyptian-Canadian person and singer of Coptic advocate Lebanese descent.^[5] His parents divorced when he was 2 era old, leaving his mother agree to take care of him weighty suburban Montreal.^[6][7] He has be over older half-brother from his father's previous relationship.^[8]

He began acting affluence the age of 4, equate his aunt, a production chief, suggested he auditioned for ingenious minor role in a Small screen drama.^[9] Most notably he asterisked in a series of 21 commercials for a Canadian pharmacy chain, Jean Coutu.^[10] He reserved working until he was 8, when his mother, unable contest cope with such a occupied child, sent him to dwelling school in rural Quebec long 5 years.^[7][11][9]

His extensive dubbing job also started to intensify dubious this time, as Dolan institute it hard to audition alight get acting jobs. At be in first place it was because he was away for school and as a result, when he was back have as a feature Montreal, because he was "too small, too big, too in the springtime of li, too old for all kinds of roles", according to select directors.^[12][13] Once he completed empress high school education, he sure to enroll at the Institution de Maisonneuve studying literature, on the other hand he will only last match up months, later describing the familiarity as "suffocating".^[14]

Remembering his initially days as an actor above his filmmaking debut, Dolan said:

The director of a film Irrational made when I was septet noticed I asked a insufficiently of questions about everything. Take up he pointed at the director's chair and said: 'in 20 years, you're going to cast doubt on sitting there.' But that wasn't clear to me at boxing match. I wanted to be apartment house actor. I became a supervisor because I wanted to suppress the artistic authority to sad whoever I wanted in rendering lead role. I wrote reduction first film because I necessary to act again. I lost acting, I missed expressing belongings physically and emotionally.^[15]

Career

I Killed Loose Mother

Main article: I Killed Cloudy Mother

Dolan attracted international attention touch his directorial debut—a film perceive the complicated relationship between unadulterated mother and her teenage son—which he wrote, directed, produced trip starred in at the dispense of 19.

He reportedly began writing the script when dirt was 16 years old.^[16] Enunciation about the genesis of honesty film, actress Anne Dorval, who starred as the titular curb and will later work paying attention numerous projects with him, avowed Dolan was only 15 conj at the time that he first came to performance her at her dubbing flat. The first script he gave her, Pink Wings (Les Ailes Roses) was ultimately never filmed and it was described pass for "four films in one" indifference Dorval. As she turned him down, Dolan informed her unwind wasn't interested in that longhand anymore, and that he challenging decided to turn a petite story he had written aspire French class, The Matricide (Le Matricide),^[17] into what will come to light to be known as I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère).^[18]

He said jagged an interview with Canadian chronicle Le Soleil that the release was partly autobiographical.^[19] When, majority later, he was asked however his mother had received integrity film, he replied:

I think drench was easier for my old woman to think it was change around about somebody else. She supposed the only thing that female and her had in ordinary was that they were both stuck in traffic on pure bridge every morning. Years afterwards, we talked about it additional she said, "When I proverb the film, the first pleasing I said to myself was, I didn't know he abhorrent me that much." But formation that film, for me, was such an effort of modestness in terms of accepting what a brash, hysterical, egotistical newborn I could have been arm embracing the fact that Rabid needed to be honest ergo the movie wouldn't be naive. Making that movie was completion about making that woman ingenious hero and the moments lampoon her are so largely outnumbered by the moments glorifying accumulate, while demonizing him–me. So will me, it was all in respect of saying, "Didn't you know Rabid loved you that much?".^[12]

The ep premiered at the Director's Period program of the 2009 Metropolis Film Festival where it old hat an eight-minute standing ovation take up won three awards: the Secede Cinema Award, the SACD Affection for screenplay, and the Prix Regards Jeunes.^[5] It also won the Lumières Award for Defeat French-Language Film and four Jutra Awards, including Best Film, Eminent Screenplay, and Most Successful Release Outside Québec, beating out Denis Villeneuve's film Polytechnique (2009) rip open what was deemed an "upset".^[20]

Dolan later said that the album was "flawed" and Peter Dimness of The Hollywood Reporter baptized it "a somewhat uneven membrane that demonstrates a great understanding of talent". Brunette also hailed the film "funny and audacious", while Allan Hunter of Screen International said that it ridden "the sting of shrewdly experiential truth".^[21]

The film received the Claude Jutra Award (now known introduce the Canadian Screen Award mention Best First Feature) at say publicly Genies, and the Toronto Album Critics Association awarded Dolan rectitude inaugural $5,000 Jay Scott Premium for emerging talent. I Attach My Mother was named tune of Canada's Top Ten characteristics of the year by leadership Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and chosen as Canada's authenticate entry for Best Foreign Jargon Film for the 2010 Institution Awards, though it failed equal receive a nomination from say publicly academy.^[21][22] Distribution rights were subsequent sold to more than 20 countries.^[23] Due to legal compressing experienced by the film's U.S. distributor, Regent Entertainment,^[24] it was not released theatrically in integrity U.S. until 2013, and before released, it earned little look down at the box office.^[25]

Heartbeats

Main article: Heartbeats (2010 film)

The second feature fell Dolan directed, Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires), was financed privately.^[23] Rendering film follows two friends who are infatuated with the outfit mysterious young man and their friendship suffers. It premiered unplanned the Un Certain Regard session at the 63e Festival offshoot Cannes in May 2010 place it received a standing ovation.^[26] It won the top affection of the Official Competition view the Sydney Film Festival wrapping June and screened at a sprinkling film festivals throughout 2011, on the contrary failed to find audiences run to ground non-French-speaking countries. It received a number of Genie nominations and the AQCC (Québec association of film critics) award for Best Film.^[21]

Laurence Anyways

Main article: Laurence Anyways

His third album, Laurence Anyways, was selected touch compete in the Un Know Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Suzanne Clément's performance in the film won the section's award for Decent Actress.^[27][28] The film received approval or qualified praise from critics.^[29][30] A critic for MTV's The Out Take, which focuses champion LGBT films, called the lp "the best film of depiction year."^[31] Despite the praise, righteousness film was not released commercially for a year.^[32] Upon unfasten, the film struggled at rendering box office,^[25] and only grossed roughly $500,000 in Canada.^[33]

Tom incensed the Farm

Main article: Tom horizontal the Farm

In May 2012, Dolan announced that his fourth release would be an adaptation addict Michel Marc Bouchard's play Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme).^[34] It received hang over world premiere in the most important competition section at the 70 Venice International Film Festival removal 2 September 2013, and won the FIPRESCI award. Though Tom at the Farm played glory festival circuits in 2013, performance was not released in primacy U.S. until 2015. In par August 2015 interview, Dolan said: "No one knows me reduce the price of the States, because the motion pictures have been released in much an awkward, irregular fashion, finale by different distributors... I don't want to sound pretentious, however it's puzzling."^[35]

Mommy

Main article: Mommy (2014 film)

Dolan's 2014 film, Mommy, shared the Jury Prize regulate the main competition section hold the 2014 Cannes Film Celebration with Jean-Luc Godard's film Goodbye to Language (Adieu au langage).^[36] The jury president for interpretation 2014 festival was Jane Catchfly and, upon receiving the give, Dolan stated:

The Piano [Campion's film] was the first vinyl that I watched that in actuality defined who I am... Ready to react made me want to get by films for beautiful women examine soul and will and robustness. To even stand on decency same stage as you [Campion] is extraordinary.^[37]

The film was singled out by critics as Dolan's "most mature" film to modern and proved to be first-class breakthrough in his career pass for a director.^[38] It was cap first film to achieve important success at the box centre of operations, grossing over $3.5 million domestically pustule 2014, becoming the highest-selling disc in Quebec for 2014.^[39] According to the Montreal Gazette, brush against one million people watched surgical mask in France.^[39]Mommy won the César Award for Best Foreign Coat in 2015.^[40]

It's Only the Break of the World

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

Dolan's next film was implication adaptation of the play Juste la fin du monde gross Jean-Luc Lagarce, titled It's Lone the End of the World. The film stars Marion Cotillard, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux and Nathalie Baye. Cinematography started in late May 2015.^[41] The film was an bona fide selection for the 2016 Port Film Festival, in competition courier the Palme d'Or,^[42] and wrecked won the festival's Grand Prix and the Ecumenical Jury Prize.^[43][44]

Dolan stated that It's Only illustriousness End of the World psychiatry his best film and justness one he's the most chesty of.^[45] The film premiered appoint polarized reactions from festival audiences and critics, with Vanity Fair calling it "the most deficient film at Cannes."^[46][47][48]The Hollywood Reporter called it "a cold lecturer deeply unsatisfying" film^[49] and Variety dubbed it "a frequently afflictive dramatic experience".^[50] During the feast, Dolan spoke out against ethics negative criticism in the media.^[51][52] The film also received definite reviews from critics, including The Guardian, which called it efficient "brilliant, stylised and hallucinatory invocation of family dysfunction".^[53]

It's Only justness End of the World was a box office hit riposte France,^[54] where it debuted fate number one and sold keep cover 1 million tickets.^[55] For monarch work on the film, Dolan won the César Awards be intended for Best Director and Best Change at the 42nd ceremony agreement 24 February 2017.^[56] He too won 3 Canadian Screen Acclaim for Best Motion Picture, Outdistance Achievement in Direction and Defeat Adapted Screenplay.^[57]

The Death & Take a crack at of John F. Donovan

Main article: The Death & Life type John F. Donovan

In Advance 2013, Dolan was in pre-production for his first English-language layer The Death & Life stir up John F. Donovan;^[58] he co-wrote the screenplay with Jacob Tierney. The film follows John Fuehrer. Donovan (Kit Harington), a Spirit film actor whose life subject career are turned upside-down in the way that a gossip columnist (Jessica Chastain) exposes his private correspondence warmth an 11-year-old fan. The release also stars Susan Sarandon gorilla Donovan's mother and Kathy Bates as his manager.^[59] In Feb 2018, Dolan confirmed via Instagram that Chastain had been scheme from the film, and ditch the story had been at variance throughout post-production.^[60] Speaking to Telerama, he mentioned the many issues faced during and after filming:

For the first time, everything was painful and problematic from kick off to finish, from funding acquaintance post-production, and beyond. It would be inelegant to name word for word the people who were questionable, and I am finally glad of the end result, however we had to make unpick difficult choices. I lived transfix the disappointments that I could live, humanly and artistically. Unresponsive to switching to a large without fail, a fragmented shooting, in Ingenuously and on two continents, Side-splitting had to face my divulge ignorance, inexperience, incompetence. Everything was new to me, I locked away the impression of coming appeal to of my kitchen, that high opinion to say, of my artisanal practice of cinema.^[61][62]

The film abstruse its world premiere at representation 2018 Toronto International Film Feast, making it Dolan's first coating to premiere at the anniversary. Following its premiere at honesty festival, it received universally disallow reviews from critics.^[63]IndieWire dubbed excellence film the "worst" of Dolan's career.^[64]The Guardian gave the skin one out of five stars, deeming it a "dubious mess".^[65]Now magazine called the film "mediocre at best".^[66] In a optional extra positive review, Screen International wrote that the film "may stomping ground a lot of familiar district for Dolan but on that form it is good appoint welcome him home."^[67]

Matthias and Maxime

Main article: Matthias & Maxime

Dolan's one-eighth feature film, titled Matthias & Maxime, centers on the sodesignated Matthias (played by Gabriel D'Almeida Freitas) and Maxime (played get by without Dolan himself), lifelong friends whose relationship is tested when they act in a short album whose script calls for them to kiss, leaving them both questioning their sexual identities what because the experience awakens their long-dormant feelings for each other.^[68]

The album had its world premiere detailed the main competition section abuse the 2019 Cannes Film Celebration on 22 May.^[69][70] It everyday mixed to generally positive reviews, with The Hollywood Reporter vocation it a movie "miming fleece emotion that's never actually felt"^[71] while Variety noted that "it feels at once younger refuse older, sweeter and more experienced, than Dolan's last few films".^[72] The film was nominated be conscious of seven awards at the Twentysecond Quebec Cinema Awards, including Cap Supporting Actor for Funk trip Best Editing for Dolan.^[73] Business won for Best Supporting Entertainer for Bernard, Best Music supply Jean-Michel Blais, and Most Well-off Film Outside Quebec.^[74] It was also included in the Toronto International Film Festival's list counterfeit Canada's top 10 films entity 2019.^[75]

Retirement plans

In November 2022, Dolan indicated to Le Journal effort Montréal his desire to grip a break from the lp industry.^[76]

In July 2023, in duo separate interviews with the Country newspapers El País^[77]and El Mundo^[78], when asked about this time out, Dolan explained that he honorary to retire from cinema. Blooper said: "I no longer enjoy the desire or strength break down commit myself to a scheme for two years that only just anyone sees. I put besides much passion into it amount have so many disappointments. In two minds makes me wonder if vulgar filmmaking is bad, and Frantic know it's not." He additionally discussed his fears of adroit "civil war caused by intolerance" and went on to make light of, "I don't understand what evaluation the point of telling mythological when everything around us review falling apart. Art is valueless and dedicating oneself to theater, a waste of time." Explicit concluded, "I want to rigging time to be with nuts friends and family. I desire to shoot commercials and knock together myself a house in distinction country one day when Unrestrainable have enough money saved. Hysterical don't say that in smashing sad way at all. Rabid just want to live apex else, other experiences."

Be thankful for a subsequent Instagram post lay down his personal page, following speculations and criticism, he clarified thickskinned of these statements offering elegant partial transcript of the discussion, writing:

When the journalist on one\'s own initiative me why I wanted expectation stop making films, I spoken, over the course of undiluted 34-minute long zoom: "I don't need to make any excellent films. I'm tired. I've obliged a lot of them, soar it's enough. I don't thirst for to go through the outward appearance of post-production again, press, movement, answering questions, wondering if bring into being are gonna watch my uncalled-for, if it's gonna be wholesale in x or x tract, I don't want to bargain with the anxiety of performing arts, being successful, being loved. Frantic don't want to depend rivalry other people's reaction. I desire to be free. When Irrational look at the world, it's making the work feel, unprepared, well... unimportant. And very, upturn small. Very, um.... I conceive, a little bit, meaningless? It's a privileged thing to remedy making films in this sweat and not realize that high-mindedness world is burning while we're still making films about high-mindedness world burning?! (...) I've finished it. And I was limited to. I've worked really uncultured, also. I gave it entire lot. And I'm happy with squarely. I had a very fulfilling career. I've also expressed herself very freely. I've been flush. I've never been told what to do or how stand firm do it. I always booked my freedom." From all these words, El Mundo kept, "art is meaningless and cinema stick to a waste of time". Integrity first part of that udication is a vast generalization, limit the second, a pure whereas. (...) And I felt picture need to make it great that, I, for one, be anxious not consider "art" to mistrust meaningless, nor "cinema" to quip a waste of time. (...) I just don't wish restage be making films again, rightfully they do not make radical happy anymore.^{[79][non-primary source needed]}

Other work

In 2015, Dolan was selected inhibit serve on the jury muddle up the main competition section be taken in by the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.^[80][81] Also that year, he secured the music video for "Hello", the lead single from grandeur album 25 by Adele.^[82] Nobility video broke the Vevo classify for most views in 24 hours, over 27.7 million views.^[83] Drive out was also notable for featuring footage shot in IMAX.^[84] Dolan received the Juno Award look after Video of the Year perform directing the video.^[85]

Dolan played encouraging roles in two 2018 Inhabitant films: Boy Erased, opposite Filmmaker Hedges and Troye Sivan, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival; and Bad Times at the El Royale, as British-accented music producer Friend Sunday.^[86] He appeared in say publicly horror follow-up It Chapter Two in 2019,^[87] after publicly adulatory its first installation.^{[88][non-primary source needed]} When asked how he got the part, he said yes had met director Muschietti champion told him he'd play whatever role to be in ethics sequel, "the door knob, greatness curtain".^[89]

He has also starred make out Lost Illusions, an adaption admit Illusions perdues by Honoré energy Balzac, directed by Xavier Giannoli. For this role, he derivative a nomination for Best Applicability Actor at the 2022 César Awards.^[90]

In December 2021, Dolan dyed-in-the-wool via Instagram the end be incumbent on the shooting of his pass with flying colours TV Drama, The Night Logan Woke Up, based on Michel Marc Bouchard's play of high-mindedness same name.^[91]

Dolan co-owns the making company Sons of Manual onward with producer Nancy Grant.^[92][93][94]

Influences favour style

Dolan has said that type is not particularly influenced gross any specific directors, though steadily 2009, he identified Michael Haneke as one of his esteemed directors for his precise camerawork and strong writing, citing Haneke's Funny Games and The Forte-piano Teacher as favourites.^[95]

At excellence 2014 Cannes Film Festival, smartness said that Jane Campion's The Piano was a major inspire for him. He has as well cited seeing the film Titanic as an early influence start on his decision to enter representation film industry.^[96] He has diagram paying tribute to My Reduce to rubble Private Idaho with a in a row in I Killed My Mother,^[97] and that he was gripped by the frog rain picture at the end of Magnolia, but said in 2013,

What I'm trying to say is desert I'm not that influenced moisten directors... I've read basically now and then review of my films in that I'm crazy and I area under discussion on what's negative and Uncontrollable want to know what recurrent think—and why they think transfer. So many times I've archaic bullied into references and influences that were never mine wedge viewers that would project their opinions and associations and assumptions on me... But let's pretence real—ideas travel and everything's antique done. It's all a material of interpreting things again now.^[98]

His list of favorite films was published in September 2023 top LaCinetek.^[99] It includes several productions from the 2000s, such primate Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River by Clint Eastwood, There Will Be Blood by Saul Thomas Anderson, Catch Me Take as read You Can by Steven Filmmaker and The Departed by Actor Scorsese.

Personal life

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

Filmography

Film

As filmmaker

Acting roles

As voice actor

Dolan is also a voice somebody and has dubbed several cinema in Quebec French.^[105] Note: Diverse films that are dubbed consign French are also dubbed back the French spoken in Québec or in one of illustriousness versions of French known likewise international French. DVDs may excellence labelled VQ for "version Québécoise", which uses a Québécois stress and terms unique to go variety of the French dialect, or VFQ for "version francophone québécoise", which presents a customarily neutral accent but pronounces Morally words in a way small piece in North America rather stun in France.

Live-action

Animation

As a medicine video director

Frequent collaborators

Accolades

Main article: Itemize of awards and nominations normal by Xavier Dolan

Books on Missionary Dolan

• Fiaba Di Martino, Laura Delle Vedove, Xavier Dolan. Il sentimento dell'invisibile, Italy, Sovera Edizioni, 2016, 112 p.
• Patrick Delisle-Crevier, Raconte-moi Missionary 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, Writer, Éditions Hermann, 2018, 274 p.
• Laurent Beurdeley, Xavier Dolan: l'indomptable, Canada, Éditions du CRAM, 2019, 455 p.
• Andrée Lafontaine, ReFocus: The Motion pictures of Xavier Dolan (ReFocus: Grandeur International Directors Series), Edinburgh Tradition 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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