Drama queen
ON SCREEN / Xavier Dolan's complex relationships touch down at Toronto International Film Festival
Matthew Hays / National / Thursday, September 06, 2012
http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Drama_queen-12487.aspxHe followed up with Les amours imaginaires in 2010 (awkwardly titled Heartbeats in English), and won another Cannes award. Now Dolan has returned with Laurence Anyways, his highly ambitious feature about a couple whose relationship is tested when one announces he is, in fact, a woman and wants to transition. As his previous films did, Laurence Anyways will show at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Dolan says he's been a bit taken aback by the critiques from some trans people. "Some have said the film conveys certain clichés. If by clichés they're talking about the character being fired or the fact that many look at him in a bad way, how are these clichés? They're clichés because they're true. If people in Provincetown see my movie, yes, they may see clichés, but they're in Provincetown. My movie is set in the '80s in Montreal. People were scared s---ess of anything different, and that was a place many thought of as open-minded."
