Xavier Dolan has spent much of the past decade putting queer rage and repression onscreen with a polarizing fury. The Montreal writer/director’s eighth feature is similar to his past work, but there’s ...

Canadian auteur Xavier Dolan has achieved much in his 31 years. Since directing his first feature aged just 19, the former child actor has carved out an impressive career as an award-winning filmmaker ...

Xavier Dolan tones down the stylistic quirks and the rough edges with a heartfelt ode to friendship. ‘Matthias & Maxime’ is 30-year-old French-Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan’s eighth film. With it, ...

At first, Xavier Dolan’s Matthias & Maxime (streaming on MUBI) comes across as one of his minor works, the foreground is dominated by tender masculine friendship that can border on homoerotic and the ...

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From one point of view, Xavier Dolan’s career looks like a precocious, single-minded blitz. As a director (he’s also a writer and actor), he’s made eight films between 2009 and 2019, with his first ...

It sounds like the premise of a Duplass brothers movie: Two lifelong dude pals, now approaching their late 20s and heading in very different directions, are convinced to make out as part of someone’s ...

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Music fills in the most tender moments of Matthias & Maxime; surfaces to fill in the silences and to communicate complex emotions; acts as a window to peep into the minds of the primary characters and ...

Dir/scr: Xavier Dolan. Canada. 2019. 120mins. In Matthias & Maxime, Xavier Dolan chronicles the obstacles that keep us from finding love and happiness, although his film suffers from the same ...

In 'Matthias & Maxime,' the latest from Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan, two childhood buddies are forced to confront their feelings for each other after they kiss for a friend's short film. By Jon ...