Friday, August 14, 2015
A winner
I had already bought this DVD and seen the film.
Xavier Dolan's latest film.
It is a NYTimes Critics' Pick!
Dolan, himself, won an award at Cannes last year for another film and this year has been invited to sit on a jury.
This kid has got the goods.
And I was there at the beginning!
Of course these things are often "all about me". I "knew her when". And so on.
But in this case it is a legitimate claim.
Look, he is, first of all Quebecois. A minority in and of itself.
I think, although I would have to check, that the films are in that special version of French. French Canadian.
He is gay. Blatantly, all out, balls to the wall, so to speak. And always has been.
In this Hitchockian almost comedy he is a bleached blonde twin visiting a farm. Just like the title says.
The other people there are the same as our Bible Belt. Only, I think, a lot worse. Isolated by being rubes, they are also a sort of sidelined minority in their own country.
They say that Dolan is the new Godard, bursting onto the scene. Well, in the same way, it has been a slow motion burst but quite remarkable, nonetheless.
Watch this. Amazing. What a guy.
