December’s #Soggettiva is dedicated to Xavier Dolan, the Canadian director, actor and screenwriter acclaimed by audiences and critics for his extraordinary ability to explore the most delicate and complex emotional and sentimental dynamics.
Saturday 7 December, 6 pm, the director is the protagonist of a masterclass at the Cinema Godard moderated by programme curator Paolo Moretti.
BIOGRAPHY
Actor, director, screenwriter, Xavier Dolan is one of the most important and original figures in the world of contemporary cinema. Following an acting career in television (Miséricorde, 1994; Omerta, la loi du silence, 1996) and film (J’en suis!, 1997; La forteresse suspendue, 2001; Martyrs, 2008), he started out as a director at a very young age, making films that stand out for their personal and strongly expressive style. At just twenty, he presented his dazzling debut I Killed My Mother (2009) at Cannes, which won broad critical and public recognition. A year later he presented Heartbeats, followed by the moving and iconic Laurence Anyways, which won the Queer Palm and the prize for best actress (Suzanne Clément) at Cannes in 2012. In 2013 he turned his hand to hitchcockian thriller genre with Tom at the Farm, which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice Film Festival the same year. He presented the touching melodrama Mommy at Cannes in 2014, which shared the Jury Prize with Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language. His more recent works were produced between 2016 and 2019: It’s Only the End of the World (Grand Prix at Cannes, César for best director and best editing in 2016), The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (2018), and Matthias and Maxime (2019), in which he confirmed his extraordinary capacity to describe human relationships with vital, palpitating imagery.