Directed by:
Xavier DolanScreenplay:
Xavier DolanCinematography:
Stéphanie Anne Weber BironCast:
Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval, François Arnaud, Suzanne Clément, Niels Schneider, Manuel Tadros, Benoît Gouin, Patricia Tulasne, Monique Spaziani (more)Plots(1)
Hubert Minel doesn't love his mother. The 17-years-old haughtily regards her with contempt, and only sees her tacky sweaters, kitsch decorations and the breadcrumbs that get stuck on the corner of her lips when she munches. In addition to these irritating surface details, there is also his parents' cherished mechanisms of manipulation and guilt. Confused by this love/hate relationship that obsesses him more and more each day, Hubert drifts through the mysteries of an adolescence both marginal and typical – artistic discoveries, illicit experiences, the opening-up to friendship, sex and ostracism. (Rezo Films)
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This film was in terms of style and content very similar to Heartbeats, which is a year younger, in which Xavier Dolan also dealt with mutual human love, trying to define it and somehow delimit it. The verbal quarrels between son and mother were perhaps sometimes too spontaneous and unjustified, but on the other hand very realistically presented. We may hate our mother to the heights of heaven, but we will certainly never stop loving her, which is true in the other direction as well. The most beautiful and visually elegant sequence was the scene in which Hubert chases his mother in the meadow and in the woods. And the ending was very well done. In short, another very beautiful and profound experience, while the young age of the director/writer is still an incredible fact for me.
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