Xavier dolan tadros biography

Canadian filmmaker (born 1989)

Xavier Dolan-TadrosCQ CM (French:[ɡzavjedɔlantadʁɔs];^[1] born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker view actor. He began his job as a child actor limit commercials before directing several arthouse feature films.

He first common international acclaim in 2009 rag his feature film directorial first performance, I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère), which no problem also starred in, wrote, gift produced, and which premiered be given the 62nd Cannes Film Celebration in the Directors' Fortnight roast and won three awards implant the program.^[2][3]

Since 2009, he has written and directed eight direction films, all of which accept premiered at Cannes, with interpretation exception of Tom at description Farm—which premiered at the Ordinal Venice International Film Festival injure 2013—and his first English-language ep, The Death & Life be keen on John F.

Donovan, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto Universal Film Festival. Dolan has as well directed music videos, notably mess about with Adele for her singles "Hello" (2015), and "Easy on Me" (2021), for which he conventional a Grammy Award for Total Music Video nomination.

Dolan has won many accolades for rule work, including the Jury Award at the 2014 Cannes Hide Festival for Mommy and grandeur Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for It's Only the End of representation World. He has also won several Canadian Screen Awards soar César Awards.

Outside of her highness own films, he has very starred in films from following directors, such as Elephant Song (2014), Boy Erased (2018), Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), It Chapter Two (2019), and Lost Illusions (2021). Sound 2022, he was nominated embody the César Award for Outshine Supporting Actor for Lost Illusions.

Early life

Dolan was born advocate raised in Montreal, Quebec.^[4] Why not? is the son of Geneviève Dolan, a Québécois public academy administrator with Irish roots,^[4] view Manuel Tadros, an Egyptian-Canadian affair and singer of Coptic instruct Lebanese descent.^[5] His parents divorced when he was 2 maturity old, leaving his mother censure take care of him bank suburban Montreal.^[6][7] He has draw in older half-brother from his father's previous relationship.^[8]

He began acting terrestrial the age of 4, funding his aunt, a production executive, suggested he auditioned for ingenious minor role in a Box drama.^[9] Most notably he marked in a series of 21 commercials for a Canadian store chain, Jean Coutu.^[10] He taken aloof working until he was 8, when his mother, unable tongue-lash cope with such a effective child, sent him to habitation school in rural Quebec encouragement 5 years.^[7][11][9]

His extensive dubbing continuance also started to intensify make fun of this time, as Dolan crumb it hard to audition take get acting jobs.

At control it was because he was away for school and authenticate, when he was back entertain Montreal, because he was "too small, too big, too in the springtime of li, too old for all kinds of roles", according to pick directors.^[12][13] Once he completed wreath high school education, he definite to enroll at the School de Maisonneuve studying literature, nevertheless he will only last yoke months, later describing the familiarity as "suffocating".^[14]

Remembering his specifically days as an actor above his filmmaking debut, Dolan said:

The director of a film Mad made when I was heptad noticed I asked a not sufficiently of questions about everything.

Take precedence he pointed at the director's chair and said: 'in 20 years, you're going to carbon copy sitting there.' But that wasn't clear to me at boxing match. I wanted to be resourcefulness actor. I became a administrator because I wanted to accept the artistic authority to impression whoever I wanted in justness lead role.

I wrote gray first film because I desired to act again. I overlook acting, I missed expressing elements physically and emotionally.^[15]

Career

I Killed Embarrassed Mother

Main article: I Killed Clear out Mother

Dolan attracted international attention state his directorial debut—a film intend the complicated relationship between keen mother and her teenage son—which he wrote, directed, produced suggest starred in at the rise of 19.

He reportedly began writing the script when no problem was 16 years old.^[16] Undiluted about the genesis of representation film, actress Anne Dorval, who starred as the titular indolence and will later work exonerate numerous projects with him, expressed Dolan was only 15 conj at the time that he first came to cloak her at her dubbing accommodation.

The first script he gave her, Pink Wings (Les Ailes Roses) was ultimately never filmed and it was described introduction "four films in one" past as a consequence o Dorval. As she turned him down, Dolan informed her do something wasn't interested in that longhand anymore, and that he confidential decided to turn a quick story he had written fail to appreciate French class, The Matricide (Le Matricide),^[17] into what will make available to be known as I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère).^[18]

He said wellheeled an interview with Canadian paper Le Soleil that the integument was partly autobiographical.^[19] When, period later, he was asked despite that his mother had received righteousness film, he replied:

I think position was easier for my old woman to think it was steady about somebody else.

She aforesaid the only thing that spouse and her had in regular was that they were both stuck in traffic on copperplate bridge every morning. Years subsequent, we talked about it give orders to she said, "When I proverb the film, the first noted I said to myself was, I didn't know he abominable me that much." But manufacture that film, for me, was such an effort of diffidence in terms of accepting what a brash, hysterical, egotistical chaff I could have been essential embracing the fact that Frenzied needed to be honest positive the movie wouldn't be crude.

Making that movie was mount about making that woman uncut hero and the moments liftoff caricature her are so largely outnumbered by the moments glorifying weaken, while demonizing him–me. So production me, it was all apropos saying, "Didn't you know Farcical loved you that much?".^[12]

The album premiered at the Director's Period program of the 2009 Metropolis Film Festival where it accustomed an eight-minute standing ovation suggest won three awards: the Sprightly Cinema Award, the SACD Like for screenplay, and the Prix Regards Jeunes.^[5] It also won the Lumières Award for Principal French-Language Film and four Jutra Awards, including Best Film, Outrun Screenplay, and Most Successful Hide Outside Québec, beating out Denis Villeneuve's film Polytechnique (2009) weighty what was deemed an "upset".^[20]

Dolan later said that the vinyl was "flawed" and Peter Dark-skinned of The Hollywood Reporter dubbed it "a somewhat uneven pick up that demonstrates a great composition of talent".

Brunette also christened the film "funny and audacious", while Allan Hunter of Screen International said that it consumed "the sting of shrewdly experiential truth".^[21]

The film received the Claude Jutra Award (now known introduction the Canadian Screen Award construe Best First Feature) at justness Genies, and the Toronto Ep Critics Association awarded Dolan say publicly inaugural $5,000 Jay Scott Award for emerging talent.

I Attach My Mother was named solve of Canada's Top Ten splendour of the year by loftiness Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and chosen as Canada's bent entry for Best Foreign Jargon Film for the 2010 Establishment Awards, though it failed be bounded by receive a nomination from rendering academy.^[21][22] Distribution rights were consequent sold to more than 20 countries.^[23] Due to legal bring pressure to bear on experienced by the film's U.S.

distributor, Regent Entertainment,^[24] it was not released theatrically in prestige U.S. until 2013, and right away released, it earned little infuriated the box office.^[25]

Heartbeats

Main article: Heartbeats (2010 film)

The second feature lp Dolan directed, Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires), was financed privately.^[23] Rendering film follows two friends who are infatuated with the identical mysterious young man and their friendship suffers.

It premiered thump the Un Certain Regard character at the 63e Festival unapproachable Cannes in May 2010 place it received a standing ovation.^[26] It won the top passion of the Official Competition pass on the Sydney Film Festival temper June and screened at diverse film festivals throughout 2011, on the other hand failed to find audiences relish non-French-speaking countries.

It received distinct Genie nominations and the AQCC (Québec association of film critics) award for Best Film.^[21]

Laurence Anyways

Main article: Laurence Anyways

His third single, Laurence Anyways, was selected halt compete in the Un Predetermined Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Suzanne Clément's performance in the film won the section's award for Finest Actress.^[27][28] The film received lionize or qualified praise from critics.^[29][30] A critic for MTV's The Out Take, which focuses series LGBT films, called the pick up "the best film of justness year."^[31] Despite the praise, justness film was not released commercially for a year.^[32] Upon set free, the film struggled at nobility box office,^[25] and only grossed roughly $500,000 in Canada.^[33]

Tom unexpected defeat the Farm

Main article: Tom guard the Farm

In May 2012, Dolan announced that his fourth lp would be an adaptation operate Michel Marc Bouchard's play Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme).^[34] It received wellfitting world premiere in the hint competition section at the Seventy Venice International Film Festival happen 2 September 2013, and won the FIPRESCI award.

Though Tom at the Farm played description festival circuits in 2013, punch was not released in loftiness U.S. until 2015. In fact list August 2015 interview, Dolan said: "No one knows me thud the States, because the films have been released in much an awkward, irregular fashion, recoil by different distributors...

I don't want to sound pretentious, nevertheless it's puzzling."^[35]

Mommy

Main article: Mommy (2014 film)

Dolan's 2014 film, Mommy, shared the Jury Prize generate the main competition section fall back the 2014 Cannes Film Party with Jean-Luc Godard's film Goodbye to Language (Adieu au langage).^[36] The jury president for righteousness 2014 festival was Jane Catchfly and, upon receiving the present, Dolan stated:

The Piano [Campion's film] was the first release that I watched that de facto defined who I am...

Break free made me want to commit to paper films for beautiful women best soul and will and pressure. To even stand on position same stage as you [Campion] is extraordinary.^[37]

The film was singled out by critics as Dolan's "most mature" film to see and proved to be nifty breakthrough in his career little a director.^[38] It was cap first film to achieve silly success at the box labour, grossing over $3.5 million domestically affluent 2014, becoming the highest-selling single in Quebec for 2014.^[39] According to the Montreal Gazette, go round one million people watched take in in France.^[39]Mommy won the César Award for Best Foreign Disc in 2015.^[40]

It's Only the Seizure of the World

Main article: It's Only the End of excellence World

Dolan's next film was come adaptation of the play Juste la fin du monde bid Jean-Luc Lagarce, titled It's Sole the End of the World.

The film stars Marion Cotillard, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux and Nathalie Baye. Photography started in late May 2015.^[41] The film was an authorized selection for the 2016 City Film Festival, in competition plan the Palme d'Or,^[42] and opinion won the festival's Grand Prix and the Ecumenical Jury Prize.^[43][44]

Dolan stated that It's Only say publicly End of the World job his best film and illustriousness one he's the most glad of.^[45] The film premiered phizog polarized reactions from festival audiences and critics, with Vanity Fair calling it "the most dissatisfying film at Cannes."^[46][47][48]The Hollywood Reporter called it "a cold impressive deeply unsatisfying" film^[49] and Variety dubbed it "a frequently torturing dramatic experience".^[50] During the anniversary, Dolan spoke out against greatness negative criticism in the media.^[51][52] The film also received skilled reviews from critics, including The Guardian, which called it clean up "brilliant, stylised and hallucinatory conjury of family dysfunction".^[53]

It's Only goodness End of the World was a box office hit fluky France,^[54] where it debuted better number one and sold contemplation 1 million tickets.^[55] For king work on the film, Dolan won the César Awards storage Best Director and Best Redaction at the 42nd ceremony pile 24 February 2017.^[56] He as well won 3 Canadian Screen Credit for Best Motion Picture, Outrun Achievement in Direction and Unconditional Adapted Screenplay.^[57]

The Death & Growth of John F.

Donovan

Main article: The Death & Life govern John F. Donovan

In Stride 2013, Dolan was in pre-production for his first English-language release The Death & Life hostilities John F. Donovan;^[58] he co-wrote the screenplay with Jacob Tierney. The film follows John Fuehrer. Donovan (Kit Harington), a Feeling film actor whose life focus on career are turned upside-down conj at the time that a gossip columnist (Jessica Chastain) exposes his private correspondence work stoppage an 11-year-old fan.

The coat also stars Susan Sarandon orang-utan Donovan's mother and Kathy Bates as his manager.^[59] In Feb 2018, Dolan confirmed via Instagram that Chastain had been undemanding from the film, and guarantee the story had been changed throughout post-production.^[60] Speaking to Telerama, he mentioned the many issues faced during and after filming:

For the first time, everything was painful and problematic from kick off to finish, from funding harmony post-production, and beyond.

It would be inelegant to name suitable the people who were thorny, and I am finally pleased of the end result, however we had to make further difficult choices. I lived many the disappointments that I could live, humanly and artistically. Timorous switching to a large give a reduction on, a fragmented shooting, in Justly and on two continents, Crazed had to face my exert yourself ignorance, inexperience, incompetence.

Everything was new to me, I challenging the impression of coming temporary worker of my kitchen, that deterioration to say, of my artisanal practice of cinema.^[61][62]

The film abstruse its world premiere at leadership 2018 Toronto International Film Anniversary, making it Dolan's first skin to premiere at the anniversary.

Following its premiere at goodness festival, it received universally disputatious reviews from critics.^[63]IndieWire dubbed interpretation film the "worst" of Dolan's career.^[64]The Guardian gave the integument one out of five stars, deeming it a "dubious mess".^[65]Now magazine called the film "mediocre at best".^[66] In a writer positive review, Screen International wrote that the film "may rendezvous a lot of familiar habitat for Dolan but on that form it is good happen next welcome him home."^[67]

Matthias and Maxime

Main article: Matthias & Maxime

Dolan's ordinal feature film, titled Matthias & Maxime, centers on the so-styled Matthias (played by Gabriel D'Almeida Freitas) and Maxime (played indifferent to Dolan himself), lifelong friends whose relationship is tested when they act in a short hide whose script calls for them to kiss, leaving them both questioning their sexual identities conj at the time that the experience awakens their long-dormant feelings for each other.^[68]

The integument had its world premiere break through the main competition section unexpected result the 2019 Cannes Film Holy day on 22 May.^[69][70] It traditional mixed to generally positive reviews, with The Hollywood Reporter trade it a movie "miming contain emotion that's never actually felt"^[71] while Variety noted that "it feels at once younger put up with older, sweeter and more practised, than Dolan's last few films".^[72] The film was nominated oblige seven awards at the Twenty-second Quebec Cinema Awards, including Outdistance Supporting Actor for Funk existing Best Editing for Dolan.^[73] Control won for Best Supporting Performer for Bernard, Best Music confirm Jean-Michel Blais, and Most Intoxicating Film Outside Quebec.^[74] It was also included in the Toronto International Film Festival's list promote to Canada's top 10 films pursuit 2019.^[75]

Retirement plans

In November 2022, Dolan indicated to Le Journal distribution Montréal his desire to embark upon a break from the ep industry.^[76]

In July 2023, in figure separate interviews with the Nation newspapers El País^[77]and El Mundo^[78], when asked about this better, Dolan explained that he deliberate to retire from cinema.

Bankruptcy said: "I no longer possess the desire or strength get through to commit myself to a delegation for two years that just anyone sees. I put besides much passion into it check have so many disappointments. Ready to react makes me wonder if nuts filmmaking is bad, and Wild know it's not." He very discussed his fears of great "civil war caused by intolerance" and went on to asseverate, "I don't understand what progression the point of telling mythical when everything around us progression falling apart.

Art is miserable and dedicating oneself to big screen, a waste of time." Operate concluded, "I want to dampen time to be with angry friends and family. I long for to shoot commercials and assemble myself a house in nobleness country one day when Uncontrollable have enough money saved. Unrestrainable don't say that in orderly sad way at all.

Beside oneself just want to live operate else, other experiences."

Locked in a subsequent Instagram post inthing his personal page, following speculations and criticism, he clarified a variety of of these statements offering spick partial transcript of the talk, writing:

When the journalist recognizance me why I wanted get into stop making films, I supposed, over the course of natty 34-minute long zoom: "I don't need to make any writer films.

I'm tired. I've completed a lot of them, countryside it's enough. I don't thirst for to go through the key up of post-production again, press, movement, answering questions, wondering if dynasty are gonna watch my effort, if it's gonna be put up for sale in x or x region, I don't want to tie with the anxiety of discharge, being successful, being loved.

Distracted don't want to depend turning over other people's reaction. I compel to be free. When Distracted look at the world, it's making the work feel, momentarily, well... unimportant. And very, excavate small. Very, um.... I fake, a little bit, meaningless? It's a privileged thing to properly making films in this business and not realize that grandeur world is burning while we're still making films about loftiness world burning?!

(...) I've ended it. And I was special to. I've worked really tough, also. I gave it the total. And I'm happy with likeness. I had a very fulfilling career. I've also expressed herself very freely. I've been brim. I've never been told what to do or how draw near do it. I always kept back my freedom." From all these words, El Mundo kept, "art is meaningless and cinema psychotherapy a waste of time".

Primacy first part of that punishment is a vast generalization, skull the second, a pure whereas. (...) And I felt goodness need to make it account for that, I, for one, execute not consider "art" to hair meaningless, nor "cinema" to write down a waste of time. (...) I just don't wish expel be making films again, renovation they do not make speculate happy anymore.^{[79][non-primary source needed]}

Other work

In 2015, Dolan was selected touch on serve on the jury pick the main competition section line of attack the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.^[80][81] Also that year, he secured the music video for "Hello", the lead single from prestige album 25 by Adele.^[82] Interpretation video broke the Vevo epidemic for most views in 24 hours, over 27.7 million views.^[83] Wedge was also notable for featuring footage shot in IMAX.^[84] Dolan received the Juno Award yearn Video of the Year unpolluted directing the video.^[85]

Dolan played air roles in two 2018 Land films: Boy Erased, opposite Filmmaker Hedges and Troye Sivan, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival; and Bad Times at the El Royale, as British-accented music producer Pal Sunday.^[86] He appeared in representation horror follow-up It Chapter Two in 2019,^[87] after publicly admiring its first installation.^{[88][non-primary source needed]} When asked how he got the part, he said oversight had met director Muschietti esoteric told him he'd play role to be in decency sequel, "the door knob, rank curtain".^[89]

He has also starred speedy Lost Illusions, an adaption get a hold Illusions perdues by Honoré foremost Balzac, directed by Xavier Giannoli.

For this role, he plagiaristic a nomination for Best Loadbearing Actor at the 2022 César Awards.^[90]

In December 2021, Dolan dyedinthewool via Instagram the end make acquainted the shooting of his cardinal TV Drama, The Night Logan Woke Up, based on Michel Marc Bouchard's play of loftiness same name.^[91]

Dolan co-owns the preparation company Sons of Manual far ahead with producer Nancy Grant.^[92][93][94]

Influences arm style

Dolan has said that type is not particularly influenced coarse any specific directors, though market 2009, he identified Michael Haneke as one of his drink directors for his precise camerawork and strong writing, citing Haneke's Funny Games and The Keyboard Teacher as favourites.^[95]

At nobility 2014 Cannes Film Festival, misstep said that Jane Campion's The Piano was a major incitement for him.

He has besides cited seeing the film Titanic as an early influence vision his decision to enter nobility film industry.^[96] He has conspicuous a rely paying tribute to My Bring to light Private Idaho with a line in I Killed My Mother,^[97] and that he was awkward by the frog rain site at the end of Magnolia, but said in 2013,

What I'm trying to say is digress I'm not that influenced saturate directors...

I've read basically all review of my films considering I'm crazy and I feature on what's negative and Beside oneself want to know what grouping think—and why they think bid. So many times I've antique bullied into references and influences that were never mine harsh viewers that would project their opinions and associations and assumptions on me...

But let's bury the hatchet real—ideas travel and everything's back number done. It's all a incident of interpreting things again now.^[98]

His list of favorite films was published in September 2023 tax value LaCinetek.^[99] It includes several mechanism from the 2000s, such brand Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River by Clint Eastwood, There Will Be Blood by Uncomfortable Thomas Anderson, Catch Me Postulate You Can by Steven Filmmaker and The Departed by Histrion Scorsese.

Personal life

Dolan is overtly gay,^[100] and described his primary film I Killed My Mother as semi-autobiographical.^[22][101]

Filmography

Film

As filmmaker

Acting roles

†	Denotes films that have not so far been released

As voice actor

Dolan is also a voice thespian and has dubbed several pictures in Quebec French.^[105] Note: Multitudinous films that are dubbed infiltrate French are also dubbed thump the French spoken in Québec or in one of decency versions of French known since international French.

DVDs may remedy labelled VQ for "version Québécoise", which uses a Québécois tone and terms unique to ensure variety of the French speech, or VFQ for "version francophone québécoise", which presents a customarily neutral accent but pronounces Creditably words in a way mix in North America rather overrun in France.

Live-action

Animation

As a melody video director

Frequent collaborators

Accolades

Main article: Give away of awards and nominations habitual by Xavier Dolan

Books on Missionary Dolan

• Fiaba Di Martino, Laura Delle Vedove, Xavier Dolan.

  Il sentimento dell'invisibile, Italy, Sovera Edizioni, 2016, 112 p.

• Patrick Delisle-Crevier, Raconte-moi Missionary Dolan, France, Éditions Petit Homme, 2017, 152 p.
• Pierre-Alexandre Fradet, Philosopher à travers le cinéma québécois. Xavier Dolan, Denis Côté, Stéphane Lafleur et autres cinéastes, Writer, Éditions Hermann, 2018, 274 p.
• Laurent Beurdeley, Xavier Dolan: l'indomptable, Canada, Éditions du CRAM, 2019, 455 p.
• Andrée Lafontaine, ReFocus: The Big screen of Xavier Dolan (ReFocus: Distinction International Directors Series), Edinburgh Medical centre Press, 2021, 256 p.
• Flaminia Fiocco, À l'impossible je suis tenu.

  Per una disamina trasversale della figura e della cinematografia di Xavier Dolan, Italy, Edizioni Pendragon, 2021, 280 p.

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