Homogenik 5 Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Xavier Dolan's new film Mommy premiered to rave reviews and a 12 minute ovation. I hope he gets the Palm Wow! Reading the reviews of Xavier Dolan’s Mommy is a great experience, the enthusiasm the critics have for it positively leaps off the screen; they sound breathless (though far from wordless) with excitement. And that excitement is contagious, I really, really want to see Mommy; ideally, right now! AND it was made by a Montrealer! Bonus! When it comes time to make a poster for the film’s general release there will be no shortage of quotes to choose from. The film’s characters are the very difficult, 15-year-old Steve, (Antoine Olivier Pilon), his mother, Diana Despres (Dolan regular Anne Dorval) and their neighbour Kyla (Suzanne Clement, who has also worked with Dolan before.) . Peter Bradshaw, of the Guardian, says that Mommy is a “splashy, transgressive treat,†an “uproariously emotional movie,†that “Antoine Olivier Pilon’s performance as Steve is tremendous: he is entirely, hilariously out of control.†“(It) is a pleasure to see acting – and directing – which is blasting away on all the emotional cylinders. Full strength, but under control. It is another notable triumph for Dolan. Prodigies don’t get much more prodigious than this.†Jessica Kiang of Indiewire’s Playlist says Mommy is “one of the most vibrant, intoxicating, illuminating films of this or any Cannes,†that the soundtrack is “an extraordinary example of making audience members’ hearts sing through the careful application of wuss rock and MOR Mom music,†and that “characters this good, this flinty and sparky and full of all the good and bad energies of the universe, should live forever.†Whew! Furthermore, “what stops this from ever becoming a telenovela is the riveting wonder of the performances and the sheer brio of the filmmaking.†Another Indiewire item, by Bent, features lots of tweets from happily overwhelmed viewers. Peter Howell of the Toronto Star says that “Dolan has a mastery of the lens that would be remarkable at any age, meticulously presenting each volatile image within a square 1:1 format that makes the energy within it seem all the more intense. If Palme president Jane Campion and her fellow panelists are looking for emotional truth on the screen, Mommy may well be their dearest choice.†Variety’s Peter Debruge says that “there’s never a dull moment.†“(It) feels as if Dolan has deliberately unlearned everything he’s seen onscreen before and embraced a fresh naivete that allows him to seek the most direct, honest and emotional way of communicating any given feeling. . .The result is as personal as ever, an ecstatic celebration not only of mothers, but of the two incredible actresses Dolan has adopted as muses along the way.†Debruge also points out that “the Cannes screening projected the French-language pic with both French and English subtitles.†Hmmm. Stephen Dalton, of the Hollywood Reporter, calls Dolan the “flamboyantly coiffed Quebecois writer-director who put the auteur into hauteur†and writes that Mommy “feels like a strong step forward, striking his most considered balance yet between style and substance, drama-queen posturing and real heartfelt depth,†and that it is “Dolan’s warmest, most humane and least narcissistic film to date.†Describing Antoine Olivier Pilon, Dalton says: “Imagine a demonically cherubic Macaulay Culkin with the s-xually charged swagger of a young Jean-Paul Belmondo.†In an article about Xavier Dolan and Mommy that was written before the film was shown at Cannes, Guy Lodge at Hitfix said that “Jigsaw Lounge has Dolan near the back of the pack for the Palme with odds of 33-1.†Now that the film has been shown, the odds on the Jigsaw Lounge site have changed mightily to 6-1 to win the Prix du Jury. The site gives Anne Dorval or Suzanne Clement 4-1 odds of winning the Best Actress Award. Here is a fuller version of that quote from Guy Lodge. “The odds: Well, Steven Soderbergh was just 26 when he won the Palme d’Or for s-x, lies and videotape in 1989  the same year that Dolan was born, if you can bear to believe it. So age needn’t be an issue if the film delivers: the question is whether the jury has the same reservations some critics (and certainly the Cannes selectors) have demonstrated about crowning him too early. (The Venice jury, for what it’s worth, gave him nothing for Tom at the Farm.) Jigsaw Lounge has Dolan near the back of the pack for the Palme with odds of 33-1, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see him humored with a keep-your-hand-in prize like Best Director or Best Screenplay.†Eric Kohn of Indiewire says that Mommy “brings the director back to themes of maternal angst and teen alienation first seen in I Killed My Mother, but cranks up the intensity with a terrific calibration of first-rate performances and emotional engagement. As Dolan’s characters endure a series of seismic up and downs, the movie maintains a vitality and movement that goes beyond craftsmanship to illustrate Dolan’s evolution as an artist.†Sasha Stone at The Wrap writes: “At the ripe old age of 25, with five movies and four trips to Cannes under his belt, Dolan already has a reputation as a cinematic wunderkind. The baggage he brings with him to every new film gets heavier and heavier. Orson Welles was 24 when he made Citizen Kane, which sets the bar enormously high for any young filmmaker who is pulled violently along by a hunger to shatter the conventions that were laid down before him.†“Dolan will likely be remembered as one of the most influential filmmakers of his time, his footprints not yet measured, his impact not fully seen  not for years, not until the myth that his best films are behind him can be extinguished. He’s 25. He just made one of the best films at the Cannes film festival. There is nothing about Xavier Dolan to indicate that his best is already behind him.†http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2014/05/22/cannes-film-festival-critics-really-really-like-xavier-dolans-mommy-theres-much-talk-of-a-palme-dor/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETPU_kKEf7o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgeQfBgTXiw Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
garnite 6 Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 i didn't know he had a new one out already! i haven't even seen tom a la ferme yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neight Shayde 7,925 Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 the second clip gave me chills. i don't know why Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewUsername 10,337 Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 i didn't know he had a new one out already! i haven't even seen tom a la ferme yet. Quick right? :o I didn't know either he had a new one already. Tom à la ferme is very good, I'd say between Amours Imaginaires and Laurence Anyways. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
artpopmess 369 Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 I love him. He's not just hot but also talented in writing, acting and directing. Who could ask for more don't follow my instagram (trying out reverse psychology) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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