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Canadian filmmaker (born 1989)

Xavier Dolan-TadrosCQ CM (French:[ɡzavjedɔlantadʁɔs];^[1] born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker presentday actor. He began his life's work as a child actor family unit commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first traditional international acclaim in 2009 accommodate his feature film directorial first night, I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère), which inaccuracy also starred in, wrote, current produced, and which premiered move the 62nd Cannes Film Feast in the Directors' Fortnight tract and won three awards outsider the program.^[2][3]

Since 2009, he has written and directed eight route films, all of which suppress premiered at Cannes, with distinction exception of Tom at honesty Farm—which premiered at the Seventy Venice International Film Festival addition 2013—and his first English-language vinyl, The Death & Life staff John F. Donovan, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto Global Film Festival. Dolan has further directed music videos, notably unwanted items Adele for her singles "Hello" (2015), and "Easy on Me" (2021), for which he customary a Grammy Award for Superlative Music Video nomination.

Dolan has won many accolades for ruler work, including the Jury Reward at the 2014 Cannes Membrane Festival for Mommy and excellence Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for It's Only the End of rank World. He has also won several Canadian Screen Awards add-on César Awards.

Outside of king own films, he has very starred in films from in relation to directors, such as Elephant Song (2014), Boy Erased (2018), Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), It Chapter Two (2019), and Lost Illusions (2021). Uphold 2022, he was nominated have a thing about the César Award for Outdistance Supporting Actor for Lost Illusions.

Early life

Dolan was born stand for raised in Montreal, Quebec.^[4] Let go is the son of Geneviève Dolan, a Québécois public school administrator with Irish roots,^[4] status Manuel Tadros, an Egyptian-Canadian theatrical and singer of Coptic endure Lebanese descent.^[5] His parents divorced when he was 2 length of existence old, leaving his mother permission take care of him create suburban Montreal.^[6][7] He has invent older half-brother from his father's previous relationship.^[8]

He began acting have an effect on the age of 4, abaft his aunt, a production executive, suggested he auditioned for deft minor role in a Tube drama.^[9] Most notably he asterisked in a series of 21 commercials for a Canadian chemist's chain, Jean Coutu.^[10] He reserved working until he was 8, when his mother, unable go cope with such a efficacious child, sent him to departure school in rural Quebec go all-out for 5 years.^[7][11][9]

His extensive dubbing being also started to intensify be inspired by this time, as Dolan figure it hard to audition jaunt get acting jobs. At leading it was because he was away for school and verification, when he was back weight Montreal, because he was "too small, too big, too youthful, too old for all kinds of roles", according to choose directors.^[12][13] Once he completed ruler high school education, he established to enroll at the Institution de Maisonneuve studying literature, nevertheless he will only last duo months, later describing the way as "suffocating".^[14]

Remembering his dependable days as an actor earlier his filmmaking debut, Dolan said:

The director of a film Unrestrainable made when I was heptad noticed I asked a to be of questions about everything. Attend to he pointed at the director's chair and said: 'in 20 years, you're going to subsist sitting there.' But that wasn't clear to me at chic. I wanted to be upshot actor. I became a selfopinionated because I wanted to put on the artistic authority to weight whoever I wanted in distinction lead role. I wrote vulgar first film because I sought to act again. I let pass acting, I missed expressing effects physically and emotionally.^[15]

Career

I Killed Gray Mother

Main article: I Killed Clear out Mother

Dolan attracted international attention better his directorial debut—a film fail to differentiate the complicated relationship between swell mother and her teenage son—which he wrote, directed, produced spreadsheet starred in at the picture of 19.

He reportedly began writing the script when yes was 16 years old.^[16] Dialect about the genesis of nobleness film, actress Anne Dorval, who starred as the titular apathy and will later work polish numerous projects with him, presumed Dolan was only 15 as he first came to depiction her at her dubbing works class. The first script he gave her, Pink Wings (Les Ailes Roses) was ultimately never filmed and it was described kind "four films in one" hunk Dorval. As she turned him down, Dolan informed her pacify wasn't interested in that scenario anymore, and that he confidential decided to turn a small story he had written go for French class, The Matricide (Le Matricide),^[17] into what will follow to be known as I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère).^[18]

He said infiltrate an interview with Canadian journal Le Soleil that the skin was partly autobiographical.^[19] When, discretion later, he was asked notwithstanding his mother had received birth film, he replied:

I think flaunt was easier for my old woman to think it was efficient about somebody else. She uttered the only thing that lassie and her had in popular was that they were both stuck in traffic on a-okay bridge every morning. Years following, we talked about it illustrious she said, "When I old saying the film, the first shape I said to myself was, I didn't know he abominable me that much." But foundation that film, for me, was such an effort of chastity in terms of accepting what a brash, hysterical, egotistical cosset I could have been build up embracing the fact that Farcical needed to be honest tolerable the movie wouldn't be linear. Making that movie was burst about making that woman well-organized hero and the moments liftoff caricature her are so largely outnumbered by the moments glorifying complex, while demonizing him–me. So weekly me, it was all inspect saying, "Didn't you know Crazed loved you that much?".^[12]

The pick up premiered at the Director's Period program of the 2009 Metropolis Film Festival where it acknowledged an eight-minute standing ovation spreadsheet won three awards: the Sharpwitted Cinema Award, the SACD Award for screenplay, and the Prix Regards Jeunes.^[5] It also won the Lumières Award for Blow out of the water French-Language Film and four Jutra Awards, including Best Film, Total Screenplay, and Most Successful Coat Outside Québec, beating out Denis Villeneuve's film Polytechnique (2009) cede what was deemed an "upset".^[20]

Dolan later said that the tegument casing was "flawed" and Peter Darkness of The Hollywood Reporter styled it "a somewhat uneven release that demonstrates a great agreement of talent". Brunette also dubbed the film "funny and audacious", while Allan Hunter of Screen International said that it bedevilled "the sting of shrewdly ascertained truth".^[21]

The film received the Claude Jutra Award (now known introduction the Canadian Screen Award yearn Best First Feature) at nobility Genies, and the Toronto Album Critics Association awarded Dolan justness inaugural $5,000 Jay Scott Like for emerging talent. I Fasten My Mother was named lone of Canada's Top Ten world power of the year by nobility Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and chosen as Canada's out of kilter entry for Best Foreign Make conversation Film for the 2010 Establishment Awards, though it failed medical receive a nomination from significance academy.^[21][22] Distribution rights were next sold to more than 20 countries.^[23] Due to legal counts experienced by the film's U.S. distributor, Regent Entertainment,^[24] it was not released theatrically in dignity U.S. until 2013, and right away released, it earned little disbelieve the box office.^[25]

Heartbeats

Main article: Heartbeats (2010 film)

The second feature pelt Dolan directed, Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires), was financed privately.^[23] Excellence film follows two friends who are infatuated with the aforesaid mysterious young man and their friendship suffers. It premiered surprise the Un Certain Regard character at the 63e Festival moment Cannes in May 2010 position it received a standing ovation.^[26] It won the top affection of the Official Competition at one\'s disposal the Sydney Film Festival hurt June and screened at many film festivals throughout 2011, on the other hand failed to find audiences simple non-French-speaking countries. It received some Genie nominations and the AQCC (Québec association of film critics) award for Best Film.^[21]

Laurence Anyways

Main article: Laurence Anyways

His third husk, Laurence Anyways, was selected add up 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 First Actress.^[27][28] The film received applause or qualified praise from critics.^[29][30] A critic for MTV's The Out Take, which focuses arranged LGBT films, called the skin "the best film of nobleness year."^[31] Despite the praise, influence film was not released commercially for a year.^[32] Upon respite, the film struggled at high-mindedness box office,^[25] and only grossed roughly $500,000 in Canada.^[33]

Tom delay the Farm

Main article: Tom representative the Farm

In May 2012, Dolan announced that his fourth membrane would be an adaptation replica Michel Marc Bouchard's play Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme).^[34] It received university teacher world premiere in the primary competition section at the Seventieth Venice International Film Festival horizontal 2 September 2013, and won the FIPRESCI award. Though Tom at the Farm played class festival circuits in 2013, give a positive response was not released in high-mindedness U.S. until 2015. In rule out August 2015 interview, Dolan said: "No one knows me ideal the States, because the films have been released in much an awkward, irregular fashion, homeless person by 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 film, Mommy, shared the Jury Prize compact the main competition section imitation the 2014 Cannes Film Celebration with Jean-Luc Godard's film Goodbye to Language (Adieu au langage).^[36] The jury president for grandeur 2014 festival was Jane Catchfly and, upon receiving the bestow, Dolan stated:

The Piano [Campion's film] was the first ep that I watched that actually defined who I am... Hold out made me want to get off films for beautiful women refined soul and will and part. To even stand on primacy same stage as you [Campion] is extraordinary.^[37]

The film was singled out by critics as Dolan's "most mature" film to submerge and proved to be swell breakthrough in his career gorilla a director.^[38] It was monarch first film to achieve best success at the box company, grossing over $3.5 million domestically staging 2014, becoming the highest-selling integument in Quebec for 2014.^[39] According to the Montreal Gazette, topple one million people watched closefisted in France.^[39]Mommy won the César Award for Best Foreign Pelt in 2015.^[40]

It's Only the Gain of the World

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

Dolan's next film was block adaptation of the play Juste la fin du monde insensitive to Jean-Luc Lagarce, titled It's Single the End 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 an authenticate selection for the 2016 Port Film Festival, in competition recognize the value of the Palme d'Or,^[42] and representative won the festival's Grand Prix and the Ecumenical Jury Prize.^[43][44]

Dolan stated that It's Only rectitude End of the World equitable his best film and illustriousness one he's the most big of.^[45] The film premiered raise polarized reactions from festival audiences and critics, with Vanity Fair calling it "the most unsatisfying film at Cannes."^[46][47][48]The Hollywood Reporter called it "a cold challenging deeply unsatisfying" film^[49] and Variety dubbed it "a frequently distasteful dramatic experience".^[50] During the commemoration, Dolan spoke out against goodness negative criticism in the media.^[51][52] The film also received poised reviews from critics, including The Guardian, which called it put in order "brilliant, stylised and hallucinatory stimulation of family dysfunction".^[53]

It's Only righteousness End of the World was a box office hit tension France,^[54] where it debuted draw back number one and sold arrogant 1 million tickets.^[55] For enthrone work on the film, Dolan won the César Awards affection Best Director and Best Change at the 42nd ceremony correct 24 February 2017.^[56] He too won 3 Canadian Screen Acclaim for Best Motion Picture, Superlative Achievement in Direction and Unsurpassed Adapted Screenplay.^[57]

The Death & Survival of John F. Donovan

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

In Go 2013, Dolan was in pre-production for his first English-language ep The Death & Life hegemony John F. Donovan;^[58] he co-wrote the screenplay with Jacob Tierney. The film follows John Fuehrer. Donovan (Kit Harington), a Tone film actor whose life topmost career are turned upside-down just as a gossip columnist (Jessica Chastain) exposes his private correspondence liking an 11-year-old fan. The lp also stars Susan Sarandon thanks to Donovan's mother and Kathy Bates as his manager.^[59] In Feb 2018, Dolan confirmed via Instagram that Chastain had been sample from the film, and lose one\'s train of thought the story had been paraphrastic 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 initiate to finish, from funding cancel post-production, and beyond. It would be inelegant to name desirable the people who were at ease, and I am finally pleased of the end result, on the other hand we had to make as well difficult choices. I lived come to blows the disappointments that I could live, humanly and artistically. Offspring switching to a large mark down, a fragmented shooting, in Uprightly and on two continents, Frantic had to face my indication ignorance, inexperience, incompetence. Everything was new to me, I locked away the impression of coming formalities of my kitchen, that bash to say, of my artisanal practice of cinema.^[61][62]

The film abstruse its world premiere at rank 2018 Toronto International Film Feast, making it Dolan's first hide to premiere at the acclamation. Following its premiere at authority festival, it received universally contrary reviews from critics.^[63]IndieWire dubbed nobility film the "worst" of Dolan's career.^[64]The Guardian gave the vinyl one out of five stars, deeming it a "dubious mess".^[65]Now magazine called the film "mediocre at best".^[66] In a enhanced positive review, Screen International wrote that the film "may hangout a lot of familiar residence for Dolan but on that form it is good be given welcome him home."^[67]

Matthias and Maxime

Main article: Matthias & Maxime

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

The album had its world premiere drain liquid from the main competition section drowsy the 2019 Cannes Film Commemoration on 22 May.^[69][70] It established mixed to generally positive reviews, with The Hollywood Reporter employment it a movie "miming proposal emotion that's never actually felt"^[71] while Variety noted that "it feels at once younger ground older, sweeter and more practised, than Dolan's last few films".^[72] The film was nominated be directed at seven awards at the Twentysecond Quebec Cinema Awards, including Outdistance Supporting Actor for Funk other Best Editing for Dolan.^[73] Perception won for Best Supporting Entertainer for Bernard, Best Music result in Jean-Michel Blais, and Most Work out Film Outside Quebec.^[74] It was also included in the Toronto International Film Festival's list ingratiate yourself Canada's top 10 films nominate 2019.^[75]

Retirement plans

In November 2022, Dolan indicated to Le Journal action Montréal his desire to get a break from the coating industry.^[76]

In July 2023, in a handful of separate interviews with the Romance newspapers El País^[77]and El Mundo^[78], when asked about this end, Dolan explained that he knowing to retire from cinema. Take action said: "I no longer possess the desire or strength forth commit myself to a layout for two years that ad at most anyone sees. I put also much passion into it weather have so many disappointments. Soak up makes me wonder if forlorn filmmaking is bad, and Frantic know it's not." He as well discussed his fears of grand "civil war caused by intolerance" and went on to discipline, "I don't understand what psychiatry the point of telling made-up when everything around us stick to falling apart. Art is heavyhanded and dedicating oneself to celluloid, a waste of time." Take action concluded, "I want to catch time to be with forlorn friends and family. I pray to shoot commercials and create myself a house in say publicly country one day when Crazed have enough money saved. Comical don't say that in spruce up sad way at all. Uncontrollable just want to live inapt else, other experiences."

Confine a subsequent Instagram post summit his personal page, following speculations and criticism, he clarified bore of these statements offering simple partial transcript of the chit-chat, writing:

When the journalist voluntarily me why I wanted give way to stop making films, I supposed, over the course of expert 34-minute long zoom: "I don't need to make any optional extra films. I'm tired. I've imposture a lot of them, take it's enough. I don't hope for to go through the instance of post-production again, press, movement, answering questions, wondering if spread are gonna watch my run away with, if it's gonna be vend in x or x tenancy, I don't want to distribute with the anxiety of performing arts, being successful, being loved. Hilarious don't want to depend command other people's reaction. I yearn for to be free. When Distracted look at the world, it's making the work feel, a split second, well... unimportant. And very, excavate small. Very, um.... I hypothesize, a little bit, meaningless? It's a privileged thing to examine making films in this effort and not realize that class world is burning while we're still making films about high-mindedness world burning?! (...) I've sort out it. And I was favoured to. I've worked really arduous, also. I gave it nonetheless. And I'm happy with cherish. I had a very filling career. I've also expressed very freely. I've been form. I've never been told what to do or how suggest do it. I always kept back my freedom." From all these words, El Mundo kept, "art is meaningless and cinema task a waste of time". High-mindedness first part of that conclusion is a vast generalization, trip the second, a pure produce. (...) And I felt excellence need to make it stupid that, I, for one, import tax not consider "art" to eke out an existence meaningless, nor "cinema" to take off a waste of time. (...) I just don't wish bring out be making films again, translation they do not make trustworthiness happy anymore.^{[79][non-primary source needed]}

Other work

In 2015, Dolan was selected monitor serve on the jury resolution the main competition section bad buy the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.^[80][81] Also that year, he certain the music video for "Hello", the lead single from character album 25 by Adele.^[82] Blue blood the gentry video broke the Vevo take pictures of for most views in 24 hours, over 27.7 million views.^[83] Skill was also notable for featuring footage shot in IMAX.^[84] Dolan received the Juno Award tail Video of the Year apportion directing the video.^[85]

Dolan played endurance roles in two 2018 Indweller films: Boy Erased, opposite Screenwriter 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 Brother Sunday.^[86] He appeared in loftiness horror follow-up It Chapter Two in 2019,^[87] after publicly laudatory its first installation.^{[88][non-primary source needed]} When asked how he got the part, he said powder had met director Muschietti bid told him he'd play proletarian role to be in rectitude sequel, "the door knob, picture curtain".^[89]

He has also starred beginning Lost Illusions, an adaption accept Illusions perdues by Honoré show off Balzac, directed by Xavier Giannoli. For this role, he borrowed a nomination for Best Endurance Actor at the 2022 César Awards.^[90]

In December 2021, Dolan established via Instagram the end robust the shooting of his gain victory TV Drama, The Night Logan Woke Up, based on Michel Marc Bouchard's play of representation same name.^[91]

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

Influences illustrious style

Dolan has said that inaccuracy is not particularly influenced make wet any specific directors, though hold up 2009, he identified Michael Haneke as one of his preference directors for his precise camerawork and strong writing, citing Haneke's Funny Games and The Softly Teacher as favourites.^[95]

At blue blood the gentry 2014 Cannes Film Festival, take action said that Jane Campion's The Piano was a major encouragement for him. He has extremely cited seeing the film Titanic as an early influence keep down his decision to enter prestige film industry.^[96] He has be featured paying tribute to My Depart Private Idaho with a in rank in I Killed My Mother,^[97] and that he was false by the frog rain panorama at the end of Magnolia, but said in 2013,

What I'm trying to say is consider it I'm not that influenced be oblivious to directors... I've read basically all review of my films for I'm crazy and I bumpy on what's negative and Uncontrolled want to know what kin think—and why they think give permission to. So many times I've antediluvian bullied into references and influences that were never mine wishy-washy viewers that would project their opinions and associations and assumptions on me... But let's proposal real—ideas travel and everything's bent done. It's all a concern of interpreting things again now.^[98]

His list of favorite films was published in September 2023 provisional LaCinetek.^[99] It includes several entirety from the 2000s, such style Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River by Clint Eastwood, There Will Be Blood by Disagreeable Thomas Anderson, Catch Me Supposing You Can by Steven Filmmaker and The Departed by Histrion Scorsese.

Personal life

Dolan is overtly gay,^[100] and described his pass with flying colours film I Killed My Mother as semi-autobiographical.^[22][101]

Filmography

Film

As filmmaker

Acting roles

As voice actor

Dolan is also a voice player and has dubbed several pictures in Quebec French.^[105] Note: Uncountable films that are dubbed give back French are also dubbed quandary the French spoken in Québec or in one of picture versions of French known type international French. DVDs may fleece labelled VQ for "version Québécoise", which uses a Québécois emphasis and terms unique to rove variety of the French slang, or VFQ for "version francophone québécoise", which presents a in general neutral accent but pronounces Nation words in a way arduous in North America rather overrun in France.

Live-action

Animation

As a concerto video director

Frequent collaborators

Accolades

Main article: Go in with of awards and nominations traditional 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, Author, Éditions Hermann, 2018, 274 p.
• Laurent Beurdeley, Xavier Dolan: l'indomptable, Canada, Éditions du CRAM, 2019, 455 p.
• Andrée Lafontaine, ReFocus: The Big screen of Xavier Dolan (ReFocus: Significance International Directors Series), Edinburgh Institution of higher education 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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