Xavier Dolan

Xavier DOLAN (1989, Canada) is an actor, screenwriter and filmmaker. His semi-autobiographical debut film I Killed My Mother (2009) was screened internationally and won many awards, including the Prix Regards Jeunes in Cannes and Best Canadian Feature Film at the film festival in Vancouver. His second feature Les amours imaginaires/Heartbeats, in which he is one of the main actors, premiered in Cannes. Juste la fin du monde/It’s Only the End of the World won the Grand Prix award in Cannes in 2016. Dolan wrote and directed Matthias et Maxime in 2019, and also plays one of the lead roles.
Filmography
(selection) J’ai tué ma mère/I Killed My Mother (2009), Les amours imaginaires/Heartbeats (2010), Laurence Anyways (2012), Tom à la ferme (2013), Mommy (2014), Juste la fin du monde (2016), Matthias et Maxime (2019)
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Matthias et Maxime
A pretend kiss between two childhood friends elicits serious emotions in this energetic portrait of 20-something friendships and 30-something issue
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Les amours imaginaires
Cheerful sketch about the love life of a group of twenty-somethings. Marie and her best male friend fall for the same guy and creatively try to scu
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J’ai tué ma mère
The 20-year-old Canadian Xavier Dolan wrote and directed this partly autobiographical debut and also played the leading role. A coming-of-age story