CANNES – Three feature films into his career, I rather imagine that high-haired Québécois wunderkind Xavier Dolan is getting a little tired of hearing the word “precocious” directed at his work — ...

Laurence Anyways begins with several close-ups of strangers pinning the passing camera with looks of surprise, disdain or suspicion. The person under examination is the eponymous Laurence (Melvil ...

When we first see Laurence Alia (Melvil Poupaud) in Xavier Dolan’s electrifying, emotionally epic Laurence Anyways, we don’t really see him—or “her,” as the case may be. True, we see bits and pieces ...

Breaking Glass Pictures has debuted a trailer for the US release of Xavier Dolan's Laurence Anyways, starring French actor Melvil Poupaud as the title character. The film premiered at Cannes last year ...

“Laurence Anyways” is, at heart, an intimate story of love and transformation of the physical and emotional kind. That its now-24-year-old writer-director, Xavier Dolan, a looming sensation in his ...

Clocking in at just under three hours, “Laurence Anyways” is longer than it needs to be, potentially taxing the patience of those who might otherwise be receptive to its uniqueness and depth. Several ...

The auteur discusses making openly gay cinema, missing out on the Cannes Competition and his mixed feelings about Hollywood. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief As he prepares for the Montreal and ...

Fully immodest and intermittently astonishing, Xavier Dolan's epic melodrama "Laurence Anyways" charts a male-to-female transsexual's tumultuous relationship with a straight woman but stands to ...

Québécois wunderkind Xavier Dolan returns to the fold with Laurence Anyways, a weighty and sprawling three-hour opus that picked up the Queer Palm award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Lushly romantic and defiantly original, French-Canadian writer-director Xavier Dolan’s third feature film is about a man who loves a woman, then becomes one. French heartthrob Melvil Poupaud plays the ...

During a lecture, the titular character of Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways, asks his high school students, “Can one’s writing be great enough to exempt one from the rejection and ostracism that ...

Set between 1987 and 1999, this drama documents the tempestuous love affair between kindred spirits Laurence (Poupaud) and 'Fred' (Clement). When 35-year-old teacher/poet Laurence confesses that he ...