Title: Laurence Anyways Director: Xavier Dolan Starring: Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye, Monia Chokri, Magalie Lapine-Blondeau, David Savard A snappy, expressive visual style and superlative lead performances power 23-year-old writer-director Xavier Dolan’s audacious, melodramatic French-Canadian import “Laurence Anyways,” about a man in a committed relationship who decides to undergo transgender reassignment. Executive produced by Gus Van Sant, the film unfolds on an expansive canvas (it’s over 160 minutes) that will immeasurably deepen its emotional richness for those with whom it most strongly resonates, but only to serve to highlight the problem of its obsessive self-regard for those who view it as blissed-out and gorgeously designed yet at its core [ Read More ]
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- 7/4/2013
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