In a vast windswept landscape, Cochise and Gilou, two inseparable bounty hunters, are on the search for a stolen phone containing some sensitive information. On the way, they cross paths with Esther and Willy, a couple on the run. They arrive in a small isolated town inhabited by deadbeats and failures. Is it possible that, in this godforsaken place, that they will discover the best in human nature?

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Subtitles:English, German

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Quote:
Montreal-based actor-turned-filmmaker prodigy Xavier Dolan’s third feature is a terrific character study for its first two hours — and then there’s the third one. That’s starting to be a routine for the young director: Dolan’s gently affecting debut, “I Killed My Mother,” was a remarkably insightful portrait of a young gay man’s relationship to his mother, but his two follow-ups have suffered from an overindulgence in style in spite of their many strengths. In the case of “Laurence, Anyways,” Melvil Poupaud delivers a stirring performance in the title role as a high school teacher who confesses to his hip girlfriend Fred (Suzanne Clément) that he has a penchant for cross-dressing. The story tracks Fred’s transition from anger to acceptance as the couple attempts to keep their relationship intact. Dolan’s screenplay is sharply attuned the nuances of human behavior, and strikes an intelligent note between intimacy and a grandly expressionistic vision that dramatizes the emotion of the scenario with boisterous music cues, fantasy sequences and a lavish color scheme.

There’s a certain raw beauty to Laurence’s uncertain path as he forms a bond with a group of older cross-dressers and questions his commitment to revealing his lifestyle changes to everyone around him. But the movie contains an epic scope that feels out of sync with the smallness of its plot; you get the idea by the first act and then Laurence’s world simply hangs there for another two hours like a slo-mo shrug. Powerful images (including an indoor flood sequence meant to represent Fred’s mounting frustrations with her conflicted boyfriend) and heartfelt performances surface in the thick of the narrative while simultaneously hampering its pace. Dolan clearly has the chops to make another great movie, but he needs to find a great editor first. Criticwire grade: B [Eric Kohn]

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Subs: English French

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Synopsis:
A feisty widowed single mom finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her rambunctious 15-year-old ADHD son. As they try to make ends meet and struggle with their unpredictable ménage, Kyla, the peculiar, new girl across the street, offers her help. Together, they find a new sense of balance, and hope is regained.

Une veuve mono-parentale hérite de la garde de son fils, un adolescent TDAH impulsif et violent. Au coeur de leurs emportements et difficultés, ils tentent de joindre les deux bouts, notamment grâce à l’aide inattendue de l’énigmatique voisine d’en face, Kyla. Tous les trois, ils retrouvent une forme d’équilibre et, bientôt, d’espoir.

Director’s note:

Since my first film, I’ve talked a lot about love. I’ve talked about teenagehood, sequestration and transsexualism. I’ve talked about Jackson Pollock and the 90s, about alienation and homophobia. Boarding schools and the very French-Canadian word “special”, milking the cows, Stendhal’s crystallization and the Stockholm syndrome. I’ve talked some pretty salty slang and I’ve talked dirty too. I’ve talked in English, every once in a while, and I’ve talked through my hat one too many times.
Cause that’s the thing when you “talk” about things, I guess, is that there is always this almost unavoidable risk of talking shit. Which is why I always decided to stick to what I knew, or what was – more or less – close to my skin. Subjects I thought I thoroughly or sufficiently knew because I knew my own difference or the suburb I was brought up in. Or because I knew how vast my fear of others was, and still is. Because I knew the lies we tell ourselves when we live in secret, or the useless love we stubbornly give to time thieves. These are things I’ve come close enough to actually want to talk about them.
But should there be one, just one subject I’d know more than any other, one that would unconditionally inspire me, and that I love above all, it certainly would be my mother. And when I say my mother, I think I mean THE mother at large, the figure she represents.
Because it’s her I always come back to. It’s her I want to see winning the battle, her I want to invent problems to so she can have the credit of solving them all, her through whom I ask myself questions, her I want to hear shout out loud when we didn’t say a thing. It’s her I want to be right when we were wrong, it’s her, no matter what, who’ll have the last word.
Back in the days of I Killed My Mother, I felt like I wanted to punish my mom. Only five years have passed ever since, and I believe that, through Mommy, I’m now seeking her revenge. Don’t ask.
— Xavier Dolan, May 2014

Depuis mon premier film, j’ai beaucoup parlé d’amour. J’ai parlé d’adolescence, de séquestration et de transsexualisme. De Jackson Pollock, des années 90, d’ostracisme et d’homophobie. J’ai aussi parlé de pensionnats et du mot “spécial”, du train des vaches, de cristallisation de l’amour telle que conçue par Stendhal et du syndrome de Stockholm. J’ai parlé jouâl et j’ai parlé mal, j’ai sacré comme un charretier, parlé l’Anglais parfois, et parlé à travers mon chapeau plus souvent qu’à mon tour, je suppose.
Bref, quand on “parle” de quelque chose, il y a forcément ce risque pratiquement inéluctable de dire n’importe quoi. C’est bien pourquoi j’ai toujours choisi des sujets près de moi, plus ou moins ; des sujets qu’on maîtrise de manière relative parce qu’on connaît sa propre différence et sa banlieue, parce qu’on sait toute l’étendue de la peur de l’autre, les mensonges où l’on se conditionne à vivre caché, ou l’amour stérile que l’on prodigue avec sottise à des voleurs de temps. Ce sont des choses que j’ai connues d’assez près pour m’atteler à les raconter.
Mais s’il est un sujet que je connaisse sous toutes ses coutures, qui m’inspire inconditionnellement, et que j’aime par-dessus tout, c’est bien ma mère. Quand je dis ma mère, je pense que je veux dire LA mère en général, sa figure, son rôle. Car c’est à elle que je reviens toujours. C’est elle que je veux voir gagner la bataille, elle à qui je veux écrire des problèmes pour qu’elle ait toute la gloire de les régler, elle à travers qui je me pose des questions, elle qui criera quand nous nous taisons, qui aura raison quand nous avons tort, c’est elle, quoi qu’on fasse, qui aura le dernier mot, dans ma vie.
À l’époque de J’ai tué ma mère, j’avais voulu, je pense, punir ma mère. Seulement cinq ans ont passé depuis, mais je crois bien qu’aujourd’hui, à travers Mommy, j’essaie maintenant de la venger. Allez comprendre.
— Xavier Dolan, Mai 2014

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Language(s):French, English
Subtitles:English

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