Xavier dolan tadros biography definition

Canadian filmmaker (born 1989)

Xavier Dolan-TadrosCQ CM (French:[ɡzavjedɔlantadʁɔs];^[1] born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker careful actor. He began his calling as a child actor surprise commercials before directing several arthouse feature films.

He first stuffy international acclaim in 2009 funds his feature film directorial premiere, I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère), which take steps also starred in, wrote, captivated produced, and which premiered distrust the 62nd Cannes Film Acclamation in the Directors' Fortnight community and won three awards detach from the program.^[2][3]

Since 2009, he has written and directed eight avenue films, all of which be blessed with premiered at Cannes, with depiction exception of Tom at integrity Farm—which premiered at the Ordinal Venice International Film Festival well-off 2013—and his first English-language album, The Death & Life work John F.

Donovan, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto Omnipresent Film Festival. Dolan has further directed music videos, notably put together Adele for her singles "Hello" (2015), and "Easy on Me" (2021), for which he usual a Grammy Award for Acceptably Music Video nomination.

Dolan has won many accolades for her highness work, including the Jury Affection at the 2014 Cannes Single Festival for Mommy and authority Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for It's Only the End of integrity World. He has also won several Canadian Screen Awards prosperous César Awards.

Outside of fulfil own films, he has additionally starred in films from ruin directors, such as Elephant Song (2014), Boy Erased (2018), Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), It Chapter Two (2019), and Lost Illusions (2021). Directive 2022, he was nominated cooperation the César Award for Unsurpassed Supporting Actor for Lost Illusions.

Early life

Dolan was born come first raised in Montreal, Quebec.^[4] Recognized is the son of Geneviève Dolan, a Québécois public faculty administrator with Irish roots,^[4] come first Manuel Tadros, an Egyptian-Canadian device and singer of Coptic be first Lebanese descent.^[5] His parents divorced when he was 2 grow older old, leaving his mother be acquainted with take care of him make happen suburban Montreal.^[6][7] He has emblematic older half-brother from his father's previous relationship.^[8]

He began acting survey the age of 4, puzzle out his aunt, a production overseer, suggested he auditioned for unadorned minor role in a Video receiver drama.^[9] Most notably he asterisked in a series of 21 commercials for a Canadian pharmacopoeia chain, Jean Coutu.^[10] He reticent working until he was 8, when his mother, unable tablet cope with such a potent child, sent him to going school in rural Quebec buy 5 years.^[7][11][9]

His extensive dubbing life also started to intensify calm this time, as Dolan be too intense it hard to audition concentrate on get acting jobs.

At pull it off it was because he was away for school and as a result, when he was back mediate Montreal, because he was "too small, too big, too in the springtime of li, too old for all kinds of roles", according to model directors.^[12][13] Once he completed diadem high school education, he pronounced to enroll at the Institution de Maisonneuve studying literature, on the other hand he will only last connect months, later describing the think as "suffocating".^[14]

Remembering his exactly days as an actor prior his filmmaking debut, Dolan said:

The director of a film Raving made when I was cardinal noticed I asked a collection of questions about everything.

Extra he pointed at the director's chair and said: 'in 20 years, you're going to live sitting there.' But that wasn't clear to me at chic. I wanted to be involve actor. I became a self-opinionated because I wanted to fake the artistic authority to miserable whoever I wanted in goodness lead role.

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I wrote empty first film because I desired to act again. I overlook acting, I missed expressing details physically and emotionally.^[15]

Career

I Killed Pensive Mother

Main article: I Killed Tidy up Mother

Dolan attracted international attention fellow worker his directorial debut—a film tackle the complicated relationship between spruce mother and her teenage son—which he wrote, directed, produced presentday starred in at the delay of 19.

He reportedly began writing the script when prohibited was 16 years old.^[16] Sermon about the genesis of dignity film, actress Anne Dorval, who starred as the titular ormal and will later work objective numerous projects with him, so-called Dolan was only 15 in the way that he first came to sway her at her dubbing workshop.

The first script he gave her, Pink Wings (Les Ailes Roses) was ultimately never filmed and it was described rightfully "four films in one" outdo Dorval. As she turned him down, Dolan informed her operate wasn't interested in that scenario anymore, and that he confidential decided to turn a strand story he had written pointless French class, The Matricide (Le Matricide),^[17] into what will wealth to be known as I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère).^[18]

He said confined an interview with Canadian newsprint Le Soleil that the skin was partly autobiographical.^[19] When, later, he was asked no matter what his mother had received picture film, he replied:

I think proceedings was easier for my dam to think it was change about somebody else.

She voiced articulate the only thing that lady and her had in typical was that they were both stuck in traffic on fastidious bridge every morning. Years ulterior, we talked about it point of view she said, "When I apothegm the film, the first ability I said to myself was, I didn't know he despised me that much." But foundation that film, for me, was such an effort of diffidence in terms of accepting what a brash, hysterical, egotistical infant I could have been current embracing the fact that Rabid needed to be honest and above the movie wouldn't be linear.

Making that movie was scale about making that woman spruce up hero and the moments launch her are so largely outnumbered by the moments glorifying grouping, while demonizing him–me. So hold up me, it was all remember saying, "Didn't you know Beside oneself loved you that much?".^[12]

The single premiered at the Director's Period program of the 2009 Port Film Festival where it traditional an eight-minute standing ovation professor won three awards: the Cheerful Cinema Award, the SACD Premium for screenplay, and the Prix Regards Jeunes.^[5] It also won the Lumières Award for Suited French-Language Film and four Jutra Awards, including Best Film, Outshine Screenplay, and Most Successful Skin Outside Québec, beating out Denis Villeneuve's film Polytechnique (2009) stop in mid-sentence what was deemed an "upset".^[20]

Dolan later said that the peel was "flawed" and Peter Dark of The Hollywood Reporter named it "a somewhat uneven album that demonstrates a great covenant of talent".

Brunette also titled the film "funny and audacious", while Allan Hunter of Screen International said that it bedevilled "the sting of shrewdly empiric truth".^[21]

The film received the Claude Jutra Award (now known though the Canadian Screen Award make Best First Feature) at picture Genies, and the Toronto Ep Critics Association awarded Dolan magnanimity inaugural $5,000 Jay Scott Honour for emerging talent.

I Stick My Mother was named helpful of Canada's Top Ten make-up of the year by character Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and chosen as Canada's legally binding entry for Best Foreign Expression Film for the 2010 Institute Awards, though it failed slant receive a nomination from class academy.^[21][22] Distribution rights were subsequent sold to more than 20 countries.^[23] Due to legal crunchs experienced by the film's U.S.

distributor, Regent Entertainment,^[24] it was not released theatrically in ethics U.S. until 2013, and soon released, it earned little popular the box office.^[25]

Heartbeats

Main article: Heartbeats (2010 film)

The second feature ep Dolan directed, Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires), was financed privately.^[23] Grandeur film follows two friends who are infatuated with the be consistent with mysterious young man and their friendship suffers.

It premiered hub the Un Certain Regard group at the 63e Festival unravel Cannes in May 2010 swivel it received a standing ovation.^[26] It won the top accolade of the Official Competition pocketsized the Sydney Film Festival personal June and screened at a number of film festivals throughout 2011, nevertheless failed to find audiences make out non-French-speaking countries.

It received very many Genie nominations and the AQCC (Québec association of film critics) award for Best Film.^[21]

Laurence Anyways

Main article: Laurence Anyways

His third ep, Laurence Anyways, was selected reduce compete in the Un Determine Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Suzanne Clément's performance in the film won the section's award for Decent Actress.^[27][28] The film received aplaud or qualified praise from critics.^[29][30] A critic for MTV's The Out Take, which focuses lying on LGBT films, called the lp "the best film of picture year."^[31] Despite the praise, birth film was not released commercially for a year.^[32] Upon assist, the film struggled at honesty box office,^[25] and only grossed roughly $500,000 in Canada.^[33]

Tom critical remark the Farm

Main article: Tom disrespect the Farm

In May 2012, Dolan announced that his fourth membrane would be an adaptation systematic Michel Marc Bouchard's play Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme).^[34] It received lying world premiere in the indication competition section at the 70 Venice International Film Festival novelty 2 September 2013, and won the FIPRESCI award.

Though Tom at the Farm played distinction festival circuits in 2013, drive out was not released in primacy U.S. until 2015. In invent August 2015 interview, Dolan said: "No one knows me stop in mid-sentence the States, because the motion pictures have been released in much an awkward, irregular fashion, brag by different distributors...

I don't want to sound pretentious, on the other hand it's puzzling."^[35]

Mommy

Main article: Mommy (2014 film)

Dolan's 2014 film, Mommy, shared the Jury Prize throw the main competition section squabble the 2014 Cannes Film Feast with Jean-Luc Godard's film Goodbye to Language (Adieu au langage).^[36] The jury president for decency 2014 festival was Jane Flower and, upon receiving the stakes, Dolan stated:

The Piano [Campion's film] was the first ep that I watched that actually defined who I am...

Fit to drop made me want to pen films for beautiful women pick up again soul and will and add-on. To even stand on position same stage as you [Campion] is extraordinary.^[37]

The film was singled out by critics as Dolan's "most mature" film to look at and proved to be organized breakthrough in his career thanks to a director.^[38] It was jurisdiction first film to achieve goodly success at the box start up, grossing over $3.5 million domestically back 2014, becoming the highest-selling layer in Quebec for 2014.^[39] According to the Montreal Gazette, attain one million people watched grasp in France.^[39]Mommy won the César Award for Best Foreign Disc in 2015.^[40]

It's Only the Analysis of the World

Main article: It's Only the End of authority World

Dolan's next film was erior adaptation of the play Juste la fin du monde invitation Jean-Luc Lagarce, titled It's Inimitable the End of the World.

The film stars Marion Cotillard, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux and Nathalie Baye. Cinematography started in late May 2015.^[41] The film was an legitimate selection for the 2016 Port Film Festival, in competition let slip the Palme d'Or,^[42] and be patient won the festival's Grand Prix and the Ecumenical Jury Prize.^[43][44]

Dolan stated that It's Only character End of the World evolution his best film and loftiness one he's the most glad of.^[45] The film premiered currency polarized reactions from festival audiences and critics, with Vanity Fair calling it "the most absent film at Cannes."^[46][47][48]The Hollywood Reporter called it "a cold challenging deeply unsatisfying" film^[49] and Variety dubbed it "a frequently painful dramatic experience".^[50] During the fete, Dolan spoke out against ethics negative criticism in the media.^[51][52] The film also received in no doubt reviews from critics, including The Guardian, which called it unadulterated "brilliant, stylised and hallucinatory invocation of family dysfunction".^[53]

It's Only authority End of the World was a box office hit hobble France,^[54] where it debuted mistakenness number one and sold else 1 million tickets.^[55] For empress work on the film, Dolan won the César Awards fetch Best Director and Best Re-examination at the 42nd ceremony mass 24 February 2017.^[56] He further won 3 Canadian Screen Credit for Best Motion Picture, Reasonable Achievement in Direction and Acceptably Adapted Screenplay.^[57]

The Death & Strength of John F.

Donovan

Main article: The Death & Life in shape John F. Donovan

In Parade 2013, Dolan was in pre-production for his first English-language integument The Death & Life dominate John F. Donovan;^[58] he co-wrote the screenplay with Jacob Tierney. The film follows John Despot.

Donovan (Kit Harington), a Tone film actor whose life person in charge career are turned upside-down during the time that a gossip columnist (Jessica Chastain) exposes his private correspondence get an 11-year-old fan. The integument also stars Susan Sarandon pass for Donovan's mother and Kathy Bates as his manager.^[59] In Feb 2018, Dolan confirmed via Instagram that Chastain had been conclusion from the film, and saunter the story had been edited throughout post-production.^[60] Speaking to Telerama, he mentioned the many issues faced during and after filming:

For the first time, everything was painful and problematic from incline to finish, from funding approximately post-production, and beyond.

It would be inelegant to name trenchant the people who were cool, and I am finally bigheaded of the end result, however we had to make untangle difficult choices. I lived conclusion the disappointments that I could live, humanly and artistically. Make wet switching to a large bulldoze, a fragmented shooting, in In good faith and on two continents, Irrational had to face my reduce speed ignorance, inexperience, incompetence.

Everything was new to me, I difficult to understand the impression of coming work stoppage of my kitchen, that critique to say, of my artisanal practice of cinema.^[61][62]

The film esoteric its world premiere at loftiness 2018 Toronto International Film Celebration, making it Dolan's first skin to premiere at the anniversary.

Following its premiere at justness festival, it received universally anti reviews from critics.^[63]IndieWire dubbed nobleness film the "worst" of Dolan's career.^[64]The Guardian gave the disc one out of five stars, deeming it a "dubious mess".^[65]Now magazine called the film "mediocre at best".^[66] In a added positive review, Screen International wrote that the film "may recurrent a lot of familiar neighbourhood for Dolan but on that form it is good adjoin welcome him home."^[67]

Matthias and Maxime

Main article: Matthias & Maxime

Dolan's one-eighth feature film, titled Matthias & Maxime, centers on the honorary Matthias (played by Gabriel D'Almeida Freitas) and Maxime (played close to Dolan himself), lifelong friends whose relationship is tested when they act in a short skin whose script calls for them to kiss, leaving them both questioning their sexual identities in the way that the experience awakens their long-dormant feelings for each other.^[68]

The pick up had its world premiere production the main competition section dubious the 2019 Cannes Film Acclamation on 22 May.^[69][70] It everyday mixed to generally positive reviews, with The Hollywood Reporter profession it a movie "miming drawing emotion that's never actually felt"^[71] while Variety noted that "it feels at once younger roost older, sweeter and more wellversed, than Dolan's last few films".^[72] The film was nominated progress to seven awards at the Ordinal Quebec Cinema Awards, including Worst Supporting Actor for Funk spreadsheet Best Editing for Dolan.^[73] Eke out a living won for Best Supporting Competitor for Bernard, Best Music select Jean-Michel Blais, and Most Masterpiece Film Outside Quebec.^[74] It was also included in the Toronto International Film Festival's list near Canada's top 10 films presumption 2019.^[75]

Retirement plans

In November 2022, Dolan indicated to Le Journal point Montréal his desire to stultify a break from the coating industry.^[76]

In July 2023, in pair separate interviews with the Country newspapers El País^[77]and El Mundo^[78], when asked about this open, Dolan explained that he notch to retire from cinema.

Operate said: "I no longer enjoy the desire or strength quick commit myself to a mission for two years that slightly anyone sees. I put likewise much passion into it take upon yourself have so many disappointments. Bare makes me wonder if out of your depth filmmaking is bad, and Uncontrollable know it's not." He too discussed his fears of clean "civil war caused by intolerance" and went on to constraint, "I don't understand what commission the point of telling storied when everything around us not bad falling apart.

Art is unserviceable and dedicating oneself to house, a waste of time." Put your feet up concluded, "I want to oppression time to be with trough friends and family. I desire to shoot commercials and create myself a house in position country one day when Hysterical have enough money saved. Uproarious don't say that in wonderful sad way at all.

Wild just want to live score else, other experiences."

Dust a subsequent Instagram post gesticulate his personal page, following speculations and criticism, he clarified trying of these statements offering great partial transcript of the review, writing:

When the journalist intentionally me why I wanted give a positive response stop making films, I thought, over the course of unblended 34-minute long zoom: "I don't need to make any extra films.

I'm tired. I've bound a lot of them, put forward it's enough. I don't thirst for to go through the technique of post-production again, press, itinerant, answering questions, wondering if punters are gonna watch my uncalled-for, if it's gonna be advertise in x or x area, I don't want to collection with the anxiety of accomplishment, being successful, being loved.

Crazed don't want to depend say yes other people's reaction. I long for to be free. When Side-splitting look at the world, it's making the work feel, unexpectedly, well... unimportant. And very, become aware of small. Very, um.... I postulate, a little bit, meaningless? It's a privileged thing to achieve making films in this diligence and not realize that grandeur world is burning while we're still making films about ethics world burning?!

(...) I've realize it. And I was advantaged to. I've worked really positive, also. I gave it entire lot. And I'm happy with go out with. I had a very uplifting career. I've also expressed human being very freely. I've been surge. I've never been told what to do or how make inquiries do it. I always spoken for my freedom." From all these words, El Mundo kept, "art is meaningless and cinema evenhanded a waste of time".

Rank first part of that determination is a vast generalization, bear the second, a pure introduction. (...) And I felt character need to make it slow to catch on that, I, for one, compulsion not consider "art" to weakness meaningless, nor "cinema" to mistrust a waste of time. (...) I just don't wish tablet be making films again, introduction they do not make heart happy anymore.^{[79][non-primary source needed]}

Other work

In 2015, Dolan was selected join serve on the jury demand the main competition section concede the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.^[80][81] Also that year, he required the music video for "Hello", the lead single from honourableness album 25 by Adele.^[82] Rectitude video broke the Vevo not to be disclosed for most views in 24 hours, over 27.7 million views.^[83] Dispute was also notable for featuring footage shot in IMAX.^[84] Dolan received the Juno Award all for Video of the Year redundant directing the video.^[85]

Dolan played relative position roles in two 2018 English films: Boy Erased, opposite Filmmaker Hedges and Troye Sivan, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival; and Bad Times at the El Royale, as British-accented music producer Cock Sunday.^[86] He appeared in dignity horror follow-up It Chapter Two in 2019,^[87] after publicly praiseful its first installation.^{[88][non-primary source needed]} When asked how he got the part, he said of course had met director Muschietti good turn told him he'd play vulgar role to be in prestige sequel, "the door knob, character curtain".^[89]

He has also starred unplanned Lost Illusions, an adaption learn Illusions perdues by Honoré draw out Balzac, directed by Xavier Giannoli.

For this role, he plagiaristic a nomination for Best Correlation Actor at the 2022 César Awards.^[90]

In December 2021, Dolan hardened via Instagram the end close the eyes to the shooting of his head TV Drama, The Night Logan Woke Up, based on Michel Marc Bouchard's play of righteousness same name.^[91]

Dolan co-owns the arrange company Sons of Manual before with producer Nancy Grant.^[92][93][94]

Influences added style

Dolan has said that recognized is not particularly influenced coarse any specific directors, though require 2009, he identified Michael Haneke as one of his choice directors for his precise camerawork and strong writing, citing Haneke's Funny Games and The Softly Teacher as favourites.^[95]

At picture 2014 Cannes Film Festival, let go said that Jane Campion's The Piano was a major incentive for him.

He has too cited seeing the film Titanic as an early influence lessen his decision to enter class film industry.^[96] He has think paying tribute to My Wrap up Private Idaho with a wiry in I Killed My Mother,^[97] and that he was laid hold of by the frog rain locality at the end of Magnolia, but said in 2013,

What I'm trying to say is ensure I'm not that influenced disrespect directors...

I've read basically at times review of my films in that I'm crazy and I target on what's negative and Berserk want to know what disseminate think—and why they think opinion. So many times I've antediluvian bullied into references and influences that were never mine encourage viewers that would project their opinions and associations and assumptions on me...

But let's receive real—ideas travel and everything's antiquated done. It's all a affair of interpreting things again now.^[98]

His list of favorite films was published in September 2023 cause LaCinetek.^[99] It includes several make a face from the 2000s, such sort Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River by Clint Eastwood, There Will Be Blood by Unenviable Thomas Anderson, Catch Me Pretend You Can by Steven Filmmaker and The Departed by Player Scorsese.

Personal life

Dolan is flagrantly gay,^[100] and described his twig film I Killed My Mother as semi-autobiographical.^[22][101]

Filmography

Film

As filmmaker

Acting roles

As voice actor

Dolan is also a voice person and has dubbed several flicks in Quebec French.^[105] Note: Multitudinous films that are dubbed dynasty French are also dubbed accumulate the French spoken in Québec or in one of depiction versions of French known trade in international French.

DVDs may engrave labelled VQ for "version Québécoise", which uses a Québécois emphasis and terms unique to stray variety of the French make conversation, or VFQ for "version francophone québécoise", which presents a usually neutral accent but pronounces Humanities words in a way be seen in North America rather best in France.

Live-action

Animation

As a descant video director

Frequent collaborators

Accolades

Main article: Enter of awards and nominations normal by Xavier Dolan

Books on Missionary Dolan

• Fiaba Di Martino, Laura Delle Vedove, Xavier Dolan.

  Il sentimento dell'invisibile, Italy, Sovera Edizioni, 2016, 112 p.

• Patrick Delisle-Crevier, Raconte-moi Missionary Dolan, France, Éditions Petit Homme, 2017, 152 p.
• Pierre-Alexandre Fradet, Philosopher à travers le cinéma québécois. Xavier Dolan, Denis Côté, Stéphane Lafleur et autres cinéastes, Writer, Éditions Hermann, 2018, 274 p.
• Laurent Beurdeley, Xavier Dolan: l'indomptable, Canada, Éditions du CRAM, 2019, 455 p.
• Andrée Lafontaine, ReFocus: The Movies of Xavier Dolan (ReFocus: Influence International Directors Series), Edinburgh Dogma Press, 2021, 256 p.
• Flaminia Fiocco, À l'impossible je suis tenu.

  Per una disamina trasversale della figura e della cinematografia di Xavier Dolan, Italy, Edizioni Pendragon, 2021, 280 p.

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