It premiered in the Un Certain Regard category at the 63e Festival de Cannes in May 2010 where it received a standing ovation. The film follows two friends who are infatuated with the same mysterious young man and their friendship suffers. The second feature film Dolan directed, Heartbeats ( Les Amours imaginaires), was financed privately. until 2013, and once released, it earned little at the box office. distributor, Regent Entertainment, it was not released theatrically in the U.S. Due to legal problems experienced by the film's U.S. Distribution rights were later sold to more than 20 countries. I Killed My Mother was named one of Canada's Top Ten features of the year by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and chosen as Canada's official entry for Best Foreign Language Film for the 2010 Academy Awards, though it failed to receive a nomination from the academy. The film received the Claude Jutra Award (now known as the Canadian Screen Award for Best First Feature) at the Genies, and the Toronto Film Critics Association awarded Dolan the inaugural $5,000 Jay Scott Prize for emerging talent. Brunette also called the film "funny and audacious", while Allan Hunter of Screen International said that it possessed "the sting of shrewdly observed truth". ĭolan later said that the film was "flawed" and Peter Brunette of The Hollywood Reporter called it "a somewhat uneven film that demonstrates a great deal of talent". It also won a Lumière Award and four Jutra Awards, including Best Film, Best Screenplay, and Most Successful Film Outside Québec, beating out Denis Villeneuve's film Polytechnique (2009) in what was deemed an "upset". The film premiered at the Director's Fortnight program of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival where it received an eight-minute standing ovation and won three awards: the Art Cinema Award, the SACD Prize for screenplay, and the Prix Regards Jeunes. ĭolan at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival
Dolan said that the system to acquire funding is "an obsolete financing mechanism that holds the creative assets of Quebec hostage". In all, the film cost around $800,000 CAD. In December 2008, SODEC gave him a $400,000 subsidy. SODEC, who had loved the project but refused to finance it because it was submitted to a too commercial department, encouraged Dolan to submit it again in more appropriate "indie" department, which he did. Each turned him down for different reasons. The film was at first financed solely by Dolan, but when need for more money arose, he asked Telefilm and the SODEC for subsidies. He said in an interview with Canadian newspaper Le Soleil that the film was partly autobiographical. He reportedly began writing the script when he was 16 years old. Career Early films ĭolan attracted international attention with his directorial debut, I Killed My Mother ( J'ai tué ma mère), which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in at the age of 19, using funds from his extensive work as a child actor. He is the son of Geneviève Dolan, a Quebecois teacher, and Manuel Tadros, a successful Egyptian-Canadian actor and singer of Coptic and Lebanese descent. Donovanĭolan was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. Outside of his own films, Dolan has also starred in films from other directors, including Elephant Song (2014), Boy Erased (2018), Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), and It Chapter Two (2019). He has also won several Canadian Screen Awards and César Awards. Dolan has also directed music videos, notably with Adele for the videos of her singles " Hello" (2015), and " Easy on Me" (2021).ĭolan has won many accolades for his work, including the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for Mommy and the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for It's Only the End of the World. Donovan, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Since 2009, he has written and directed eight feature films, all of which have premiered at Cannes, with the exception of Tom at the Farm-which premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in 2013-and his first English-language film, The Death & Life of John F. He first received international acclaim in 2009 for his feature film directorial debut, I Killed My Mother ( J'ai tué ma mère), which he also starred in, wrote, and produced, and which premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section and won three awards from the program. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. Xavier Dolan-Tadros CQ CM ( French: born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker, actor and costume designer.
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