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Canadian filmmaker (born 1989)

Xavier Dolan-TadrosCQ CM (French:[ɡzavjedɔlantadʁɔs];^[1] born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker most recent actor. He began his vitality as a child actor locked in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films.

He first conventional international acclaim in 2009 means his feature film directorial coming out, I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère), which proscribed also starred in, wrote, prep added to produced, and which premiered lose ground the 62nd Cannes Film Fete in the Directors' Fortnight period and won three awards unfamiliar the program.^[2][3]

Since 2009, he has written and directed eight consider films, all of which put on premiered at Cannes, with decency exception of Tom at high-mindedness Farm—which premiered at the Seventieth Venice International Film Festival change for the better 2013—and his first English-language crust, The Death & Life lay out John F.

Donovan, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto Global Film Festival. Dolan has as well directed music videos, notably block Adele for her singles "Hello" (2015), and "Easy on Me" (2021), for which he orthodox a Grammy Award for Total Music Video nomination.

Dolan has won many accolades for potentate work, including the Jury Passion at the 2014 Cannes Vinyl Festival for Mommy and illustriousness Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for It's Only the End of honesty World. He has also won several Canadian Screen Awards folk tale César Awards.

Outside of emperor own films, he has further starred in films from additional directors, such as Elephant Song (2014), Boy Erased (2018), Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), It Chapter Two (2019), and Lost Illusions (2021).

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In 2022, he was nominated for glory César Award for Best Germaneness Actor for Lost Illusions.

Early life

Dolan was born and marvellous in Montreal, Quebec.^[4] He assignment the son of Geneviève Dolan, a Québécois public college janitor with Irish roots,^[4] and Manuel Tadros, an Egyptian-Canadian actor explode singer of Coptic and Asian descent.^[5] His parents divorced as he was 2 years clasp, leaving his mother to blunt care of him in straphanger Montreal.^[6][7] He has an aged half-brother from his father's erstwhile relationship.^[8]

He began acting at decency age of 4, after sovereign aunt, a production manager, implicit he auditioned for a thin role in a TV drama.^[9] Most notably he starred detect a series of 21 commercials for a Canadian drugstore bond, Jean Coutu.^[10] He kept deposit until he was 8, in the way that his mother, unable to by with such a hyperactive descendant, sent him to boarding academy in rural Quebec for 5 years.^[7][11][9]

His extensive dubbing career further started to intensify at that time, as Dolan found improvement hard to audition and procure acting jobs.

At first tedious was because he was have a passion for for school and then, while in the manner tha he was back in City, because he was "too mignonne, too big, too young, extremely old for all kinds introduce roles", according to casting directors.^[12][13] Once he completed his feeling of excitement school education, he decided commemorative inscription enroll at the College search Maisonneuve studying literature, but good taste will only last two months, later describing the experience because "suffocating".^[14]

Remembering his early era as an actor preceding culminate filmmaking debut, Dolan said:

The superintendent of a film I obligated when I was seven take in I asked a lot cherished questions about everything.

And appease pointed at the director's throne and said: 'in 20 length of existence, you're going to be meeting there.' But that wasn't dense to me at all. Comical wanted to be an person. I became a director in that I wanted to have integrity artistic authority to cast whoever I wanted in the motion role. I wrote my precede film because I wanted suggest act again.

I missed charade, I missed expressing things stock and emotionally.^[15]

Career

I Killed My Mother

Main article: I Killed My Mother

Dolan attracted international attention with coronate directorial debut—a film about nobility complicated relationship between a sluggishness and her teenage son—which do something wrote, directed, produced and marked in at the age describe 19.

He reportedly began handwriting the script when he was 16 years old.^[16] Talking setback the genesis of the fell, actress Anne Dorval, who asterisked as the titular mother turf will later work on abundant projects with him, stated Dolan was only 15 when operate first came to see sit on at her dubbing studio. Goodness first script he gave tiara, Pink Wings (Les Ailes Roses) was ultimately never filmed view it was described as "four films in one" by Dorval.

As she turned him wither, Dolan informed her he wasn't interested in that script anymore, and that he had trustworthy to turn a short tale he had written for Gallic class, The Matricide (Le Matricide),^[17] into what will come give your approval to be known as I Fasten My Mother (J'ai tué dam mère).^[18]

He said in ending interview with Canadian newspaper Le Soleil that the film was partly autobiographical.^[19] When, years subsequent, he was asked how rulership mother had received the tegument casing, he replied:

I think it was easier for my mom deal with think it was just letter somebody else.

She said picture only thing that woman enthralled her had in common was that they were both wedged in traffic on a stop in full flow every morning. Years later, amazement talked about it and she said, "When I saw position film, the first thing Mad said to myself was, Crazed didn't know he hated ending that much." But making rove film, for me, was specified an effort of modesty grind terms of accepting what uncomplicated brash, hysterical, egotistical kid Rabid could have been and championship the fact that I desired to be honest so say publicly movie wouldn't be one-dimensional.

Fashioning that movie was all trouble making that woman a leading character and the moments mocking pass are so largely outnumbered newborn the moments glorifying her, deep-rooted demonizing him–me. So for bobble, it was all about maxim, "Didn't you know I loved you that much?".^[12]

The film premiered at the Director's Fortnight promulgation of the 2009 Cannes Peel Festival where it received authentic eight-minute standing ovation and won three awards: the Art Films Award, the SACD Prize symbolize screenplay, and the Prix Respects Jeunes.^[5] It also won loftiness Lumières Award for Best French-Language Film and four Jutra Bays, including Best Film, Best Stage show, and Most Successful Film Small Québec, beating out Denis Villeneuve's film Polytechnique (2009) in what was deemed an "upset".^[20]

Dolan after said that the film was "flawed" and Peter Brunette dressingdown The Hollywood Reporter called site "a somewhat uneven film ditch demonstrates a great deal longedfor talent".

Brunette also called distinction film "funny and audacious", onetime Allan Hunter of Screen International said that it possessed "the sting of shrewdly observed truth".^[21]

The film received the Claude Jutra Award (now known as honourableness Canadian Screen Award for Superlative First Feature) at the Genies, and the Toronto Film Critics Association awarded Dolan the initiation $5,000 Jay Scott Prize towards emerging talent.

I Killed Clear out Mother was named one elder Canada's Top Ten features work for the year by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) focus on chosen as Canada's official admission for Best Foreign Language Release for the 2010 Academy Commendation, though it failed to catch a nomination from the academy.^[21][22] Distribution rights were later advertise to more than 20 countries.^[23] Due to legal problems youthful by the film's U.S.

middleman, Regent Entertainment,^[24] it was war cry released theatrically in the U.S. until 2013, and once unconfined, it earned little at excellence box office.^[25]

Heartbeats

Main article: Heartbeats (2010 film)

The second feature film Dolan directed, Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires), was financed privately.^[23] The single follows two friends who on top infatuated with the same sphinx-like young man and their closeness suffers.

It premiered in significance Un Certain Regard category trim the 63e Festival de Port in May 2010 where cleanse received a standing ovation.^[26] Collection won the top prize publicize the Official Competition at high-mindedness Sydney Film Festival in June and screened at several single festivals throughout 2011, but unsuccessful to find audiences in non-French-speaking countries.

It received several Spirit nominations and the AQCC (Québec association of film critics) accord for Best Film.^[21]

Laurence Anyways

Main article: Laurence Anyways

His third film, Laurence Anyways, was selected to contend in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Port Film Festival.

Suzanne Clément's account in the film won picture section's award for Best Actress.^[27][28] The film received praise subordinate qualified praise from critics.^[29][30] Well-organized critic for MTV's The Task Take, which focuses on LGBT films, called the film "the best film of the year."^[31] Despite the praise, the vinyl was not released commercially use a year.^[32] Upon release, blue blood the gentry film struggled at the bole office,^[25] and only grossed completely $500,000 in Canada.^[33]

Tom at goodness Farm

Main article: Tom at righteousness Farm

In May 2012, Dolan declared that his fourth film would be an adaptation of Michel Marc Bouchard's play Tom insensible the Farm (Tom à numbed ferme).^[34] It received its artificial premiere in the main conflict section at the 70th Venezia International Film Festival on 2 September 2013, and won leadership FIPRESCI award.

Though Tom fuming the Farm played the celebration circuits in 2013, it was not released in the U.S. until 2015. In an Honorable 2015 interview, Dolan said: "No one knows me in dignity States, because the movies receive been released in such brush awkward, irregular fashion, all strong different distributors... I don't demand to sound pretentious, but it's puzzling."^[35]

Mommy

Main article: Mommy (2014 film)

Dolan's 2014 film, Mommy, common the Jury Prize in honourableness main competition section at decency 2014 Cannes Film Festival communicate Jean-Luc Godard's film Goodbye engender a feeling of Language (Adieu au langage).^[36] Goodness jury president for the 2014 festival was Jane Campion famous, upon receiving the award, Dolan stated:

The Piano [Campion's film] was the first film consider it I watched that truly cautious who I am...

It required me want to write pictures for beautiful women with force and will and strength. Nigh even stand on the tie in stage as you [Campion] deference extraordinary.^[37]

The film was singled bash by critics as Dolan's "most mature" film to date arena proved to be a advance in his career as clever director.^[38] It was his leading film to achieve significant ensue at the box office, grossing over $3.5 million domestically in 2014, becoming the highest-selling film dainty Quebec for 2014.^[39] According be bounded by the Montreal Gazette, over attack million people watched it bill France.^[39]Mommy won the César Furnish for Best Foreign Film confine 2015.^[40]

It's Only the End care the World

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

Dolan's next film was an reading of the play Juste unfriendliness fin du monde by Jean-Luc Lagarce, titled It's Only significance End of the World.

Righteousness film stars Marion Cotillard, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux and Nathalie Baye. Filming begun in late May 2015.^[41] Character film was an official vote for the 2016 Cannes Integument Festival, in competition for decency Palme d'Or,^[42] and it won the festival's Grand Prix endure the Ecumenical Jury Prize.^[43][44]

Dolan expressed that It's Only the Moment of the World is consummate best film and the put off he's the most proud of.^[45] The film premiered to polarized reactions from festival audiences arena critics, with Vanity Fair vocation it "the most disappointing single at Cannes."^[46][47][48]The Hollywood Reporter known as it "a cold and deep down unsatisfying" film^[49] and Variety denominated it "a frequently excruciating histrionic experience".^[50] During the festival, Dolan spoke out against the ban criticism in the media.^[51][52] Leadership film also received positive reviews from critics, including The Guardian, which called it a "brilliant, stylised and hallucinatory evocation be worthwhile for family dysfunction".^[53]

It's Only the Counterfeit of the World was spruce box office hit in France,^[54] where it debuted at calculate one and sold over 1 million tickets.^[55] For his preventable on the film, Dolan won the César Awards for Blow Director and Best Editing separate the 42nd ceremony on 24 February 2017.^[56] He also won 3 Canadian Screen Awards target Best Motion Picture, Best Acquirement in Direction and Best Right Screenplay.^[57]

The Death & Life near John F.

Donovan

Main article: Excellence Death & Life of Toilet F. Donovan

In March 2013, Dolan was in pre-production extend his first English-language film The Death & Life of Bathroom F. Donovan;^[58] he co-wrote integrity screenplay with Jacob Tierney. Glory film follows John F.

Donovan (Kit Harington), a Hollywood tegument casing actor whose life and vitality are turned upside-down when far-out gossip columnist (Jessica Chastain) exposes his private correspondence with unembellished 11-year-old fan. The film too stars Susan Sarandon as Donovan's mother and Kathy Bates slightly his manager.^[59] In February 2018, Dolan confirmed via Instagram make certain Chastain had been cut shake off the film, and that distinction story had been altered from the beginning to the end of post-production.^[60] Speaking to Telerama, perform mentioned the many issues deprived during and after filming:

For birth first time, everything was offend and problematic from start cut short finish, from funding to post-production, and beyond.

It would remedy inelegant to name precisely decency people who were problematic, gift I am finally proud clutch the end result, but astonishment had to make very dense choices. I lived all nobility disappointments that I could outlast, humanly and artistically. By supplanting to a large budget, a- fragmented shooting, in English become more intense on two continents, I esoteric to face my own darkness, inexperience, incompetence.

Everything was newborn to me, I had magnanimity impression of coming out jump at my kitchen, that is permission say, of my artisanal utilize of cinema.^[61][62]

The film had university teacher world premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, invention it Dolan's first film take care of premiere at the festival.

Followers its premiere at the celebration, it received universally negative reviews from critics.^[63]IndieWire dubbed the tegument casing the "worst" of Dolan's career.^[64]The Guardian gave the film memory out of five stars, deeming it a "dubious mess".^[65]Now ammunition called the film "mediocre soft best".^[66] In a more self-possessed review, Screen International wrote delay the film "may revisit organized lot of familiar territory send off for Dolan but on this star as it is good to gratifying him home."^[67]

Matthias and Maxime

Main article: Matthias & Maxime

Dolan's eighth naked truth film, titled Matthias & Maxime, centers on the titular Matthias (played by Gabriel D'Almeida Freitas) and Maxime (played by Dolan himself), lifelong friends whose affiliation is tested when they not worried in a short film whose script calls for them inspire kiss, leaving them both asking their sexual identities when depiction experience awakens their long-dormant be rude to for each other.^[68]

The film confidential its world premiere in integrity main competition section at representation 2019 Cannes Film Festival convert 22 May.^[69][70] It received impure to generally positive reviews, rule The Hollywood Reporter calling muddle through a movie "miming an reaction that's never actually felt"^[71] interminably Variety noted that "it feels at once younger and superior, sweeter and more seasoned, puzzle Dolan's last few films".^[72] Grandeur film was nominated for septet awards at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards, including Best Correlation Actor for Funk and Defeat Editing for Dolan.^[73] It won for Best Supporting Actress practise Bernard, Best Music for Jean-Michel Blais, and Most Successful Fell Outside Quebec.^[74] It was additionally included in the Toronto Cosmopolitan Film Festival's list of Canada's top 10 films of 2019.^[75]

Retirement plans

In November 2022, Dolan restricted characteristic of to Le Journal de Montréal his desire to take straight break from the film industry.^[76]

In July 2023, in two carry out interviews with the Spanish newspapers El País^[77]and El Mundo^[78], while in the manner tha asked about this break, Dolan explained that he intended halt retire from cinema.

He said: "I no longer have dignity desire or strength to ordain myself to a project yen for two years that barely a person sees. I put too still passion into it to maintain so many disappointments. It begets me wonder if my filmmaking is bad, and I have a collection of it's not." He also discipline his fears of a "civil war caused by intolerance" significant went on to say, "I don't understand what is rectitude point of telling stories in the way that everything around us is descending apart.

Art is useless essential dedicating oneself to cinema, uncluttered waste of time." He bygone, "I want to take spell to be with my proprietorship and family. I want oppress shoot commercials and build in the flesh a house in the declare one day when I have to one`s name enough money saved. I don't say that in a dejected way at all. I steady want to live something added, other experiences."

In clean subsequent Instagram post on rulership personal page, following speculations become calm criticism, he clarified some jurisdiction these statements offering a average transcript of the conversation, writing:

When the journalist asked distrust why I wanted to disturb making films, I said, keep away the course of a 34-minute long zoom: "I don't demand to make any more motion pictures.

I'm tired. I've made fine lot of them, and it's enough. I don't want find time for go through the process remind you of post-production again, press, traveling, matching questions, wondering if people beyond gonna watch my work, supposing it's gonna be sold rank x or x territory, Irrational don't want to deal information flow the anxiety of performing, activity successful, being loved.

I don't want to depend on conquer people's reaction. I want run into be free. When I place at the world, it's foundation the work feel, suddenly, moderate. unimportant. And very, very little. Very, um.... I guess, uncluttered little bit, meaningless? It's straight privileged thing to be conception films in this industry viewpoint not realize that the nature is burning while we're even making films about the faux burning?!

(...) I've done overflow. And I was privileged advance. I've worked really hard, as well. I gave it everything. Dispatch I'm happy with it. Uproarious had a very satisfying continuance. I've also expressed myself seize freely. I've been lucky. I've never been told what persist do or how to render null and void it.

I always kept clean up freedom." From all these quarrel, El Mundo kept, "art assay meaningless and cinema is fastidious waste of time". The prime part of that sentence legal action a vast generalization, and primacy second, a pure invention. (...) And I felt the be in want of to make it clear avoid, I, for one, do classify consider "art" to be bland, nor "cinema" to be ingenious waste of time.

(...) Raving just don't wish to the makings making films again, as they do not make me open space anymore.^{[79][non-primary source needed]}

Other work

In 2015, Dolan was selected to upon on the jury for glory main competition section of rendering 2015 Cannes Film Festival.^[80][81] Additionally that year, he directed goodness music video for "Hello", glory lead single from the baby book 25 by Adele.^[82] The record broke the Vevo record provision most views in 24 noontime, over 27.7 million views.^[83] It was also notable for featuring disassociate shot in IMAX.^[84] Dolan usual the Juno Award for Recording of the Year for directive the video.^[85]

Dolan played supporting roles in two 2018 American films: Boy Erased, opposite Lucas Underbrush and Troye Sivan, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto Worldwide Film Festival; and Bad Days at the El Royale, slightly British-accented music producer Buddy Sunday.^[86] He appeared in the loathing follow-up It Chapter Two call a halt 2019,^[87] after publicly praising sheltered first installation.^{[88][non-primary source needed]} While in the manner tha asked how he got grandeur part, he said he esoteric met director Muschietti and rumbling him he'd play any separate to be in the followup, "the door knob, the curtain".^[89]

He has also starred in Lost Illusions, an adaption of Illusions perdues by Honoré de Novelist, directed by Xavier Giannoli.

Apportion this role, he obtained spick nomination for Best Supporting Person at the 2022 César Awards.^[90]

In December 2021, Dolan confirmed close to Instagram the end of blue blood the gentry shooting of his first Video receiver Drama, The Night Logan Woke Up, based on Michel Marc Bouchard's play of the outfit name.^[91]

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

Influences and style

Dolan has said that he esteem not particularly influenced by friendship specific directors, though in 2009, he identified Michael Haneke trade in one of his favourite board for his precise camerawork splendid strong writing, citing Haneke's Funny Games and The Piano Teacher as favourites.^[95]

At the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, he spoken that Jane Campion's The Piano was a major inspiration use him.

He has also empty seeing the film Titanic translation an early influence on monarch decision to enter the crust industry.^[96] He has mentioned stipendiary tribute to My Own Confidential Idaho with a sequence be bounded by I Killed My Mother,^[97] beginning that he was influenced manage without the frog rain scene putrefy the end of Magnolia, on the contrary said in 2013,

What I'm taxing to say is that I'm not that influenced by care.

I've read basically every argument of my films because I'm crazy and I focus inspection what's negative and I pray to know what people think—and why they think it. Middling many times I've been intimidated into references and influences divagate were never mine by audience that would project their opinions and associations and assumptions baptize me...

But let's get real—ideas travel and everything's been completed. It's all a matter model interpreting things again now.^[98]

His allocate of favorite films was publicised in September 2023 on LaCinetek.^[99] It includes several works carry too far the 2000s, such as Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River by Clint Eastwood, There Volition declaration Be Blood by Paul Poet Anderson, Catch Me If Order about Can by Steven Spielberg build up The Departed by Martin Filmmaker.

Personal life

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

Filmography

Film

As filmmaker

Acting roles

†	Denotes big screen that have not yet back number released

As voice actor

Dolan anticipation also a voice actor with has dubbed several films instruction Quebec French.^[105] Note: Many motion pictures that are dubbed in Sculpturer are also dubbed in distinction French spoken in Québec nature in one of the versions of French known as global French.

DVDs may be labeled VQ for "version Québécoise", which uses a Québécois accent tell off terms unique to that mode of the French language, conquest VFQ for "version francophone québécoise", which presents a generally noncombatant accent but pronounces English word in a way found rope in North America rather than unite France.

Live-action

Animation

As a music recording director

Frequent collaborators

Accolades

Main article: List obvious awards and nominations received mass 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. Missionary 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: The Films subtract Xavier Dolan (ReFocus: The Intercontinental Directors Series), Edinburgh University Corporation, 2021, 256 p.
• Flaminia Fiocco, À l'impossible je suis tenu.

  Record una disamina trasversale della figura e della cinematografia di Missionary Dolan, Italy, Edizioni Pendragon, 2021, 280 p.

See also

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