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Xavier Dolan: The Essential Films

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Xavier Dolan might be, at heart, our Millennial Melodramatist. With multiple premieres at the Cannes Film Festival, including two Jury Prize Award wins, a keen eye on mothers and sons, and an expressionistic approach to queer desire, there’s an inherent selfishness to the director’s filmography that augments and texturizes each film and gives it a distinctive feeling, even if he (knowingly) cribs images and ideas from film history.

His perspective on identity and what it is to be thrown in a chaotic, sometimes hostile world seems informed by economic crisis, evolution in understanding sexual and gender identity, and a fundamental feeling of displacement in the world.

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