Xavier Dolan's Transgender Film 'Laurence Anyways' Wins Cannes Gay Prize

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Xavier Dolan's Transgender Film 'Laurence Anyways' Wins Cannes Gay Prize


By On Top Magazine Staff | Published: May 29, 2012


http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=11951&MediaType=1&Category=4





Director-writer Xavier Dolan's Laurence Anyways has taken the third annual Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival.

The award recognizes one film playing at the festival for its contributions to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender issues.

In Dolan's film, Laurence Alia (played by Melvil Poupaud), an accomplished writer and teacher, tells his fiancee Fred Belair (Suzanne Clement), who works in the film industry, that he has always been a woman, even if he was born a man, and that he's ready to begin transitioning to a woman.