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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.

MONTREAL – In his new movie “Laurence Anyways,” Xavier Dolan plays almost every role except actor. It’s a switch from the Quebec filmmaker’s two previous movies when he starred in front of the cameras ...

Quebec director Xavier Dolan' admirable but exasperating third feature, Laurence Anyways, follows the love affair of a woman and her transgender partner over the course of the 1990s. At more than two ...

As in Heartbeats (2010), Xavier Dolan's preternaturally sophisticated second film, Laurence Anyways pivots on a birthday party. This one is also set in Dolan's native Montreal, but in the year of his ...

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 ...

Canadian Oscar nominee War Witch and film festival favourite Laurence Anyways dominate nominations for the Jutra Awards, the annual prizes for Quebec films. Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways, which ...

Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways may not have made it on to the Oscar short-list – that spot was taken by Kim Nguyen’s Rebelle/War Witch – but Dolan’s brave, ambitious epic about a man going through a ...

AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR THE MOVING IMAGE: In Laurence Anyways, the third feature from ambitious young Canadian writer-director Xavier Dolan, Melvil Poupaud plays Laurence Alia, a successful young ...

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 ...

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 ...