Xavier Dolan: biography, personal life

Talent does not depend on age, life experience or education. You can learn all your life, but never "shoot". But Xavier Dolan in his 25 years - an actor, director, artist, composer. His first film made a splash, and the last picture "Tom on the farm" thwarted applause at the Venice Film Festival. And who else can boast that at such a young age can make a serious competition to the cinematographers? However, the recognized masters had to move.

So who is Xavier Dolan?

Some critics consider him an upstart, impostor. They assure that all of his paintings are a complete quotation, that he did not bring anything new to the cinema.

Others, on the contrary, revere him as the director of the "new wave", a representative of independent cinema, whose films bear the imprint of individuality and uniqueness.

Who is right? Most likely, such, as usual, no.

Xavier himself admits that he is still looking for forms, trying various materials, plots, directing techniques. However, these are not experiments for the sake of experimentation. This is a search for new opportunities to tell your stories.

Dolan is not just a director, he acts in his films. He writes scripts, selects soundtracks, builds a composition of the future film and searches for suitable authentic faces for his stories.

Biographical

His full name is Xavier Dolan-Tadros. He was born in 1989, on March 20, in Montreal. Tadros is the name of his father. The Egyptian actor Manuel and university employee Genevieve parted long before the age of majority Xavier. However, it was under the influence of his father that the young genius first tried his hand at acting. Everything is very corny. He starred in advertising. Then there was the experience of dubbing. From the age of five he was taken on small roles in TV shows. He also enlightened in the cinema. Again, in the episodes. For such a young age, the career was very successful.

As a result, Xavier decided not to waste time on school, dropped it without even bothering to get a certificate. The period of "nothingness", as Dolan himself christened this time, ended with writing the script for the first film of the director - "I killed my mother."

The first film, the first success

"I killed my mother" - the first film that directed the director and screenwriter Xavier Dolan. His filmography to this point was instantly forgotten. Indeed, where there episodic children's roles before the semi-biographical film-revelation.

Many people are repelled by the name of this tape. However, before the viewer is not a thriller, not an eerie noir, this is an outspoken story of a teenager crushed by my mother's hyperope. Relations with my mother on the verge of love-hate are familiar to many. Sometimes the desire of parents to personally build their children's lives generates monstrous conflicts.

In parallel, there is another, not explicit plot line in the film. The relationship between the main character and his boyfriend. Yes, Xavier Dolan is gay. And he does not hide it.

The film "I killed my mother" was appreciated by the jury of the Cannes Film Festival. The picture was even nominated for "Oscar", however, the main list was never allowed. This did not prevent the young director from obtaining the status of a cult.

The picture once again convinces us that the creation of a masterpiece does not require huge financial injections, promotions and advertising promotion. Do not even involve a lot of people. The seventeen-year-old boy himself took off, mounted, built a visual series, picked up the soundtrack, starred in the title role. And he became a "new" discovery in the cinema.

Imagining Love

Almost immediately after the debut tape rolled out the next film Xavier. A young artist in general is distinguished by amazing performance.

In 2009, the picture "Imaginary Love" appeared. The author himself described the film as "petty" in terms of feelings of the main characters, immersed in self-admiration themselves. Trying to build some kind of perfect love, they roll into the banal "petty" love passions. The visual series here is very different from what was in the first picture. Bright, sometimes far from reality, images emphasize the lack of naturalness, the "picturesqueness" of this love triangle.

The film again got into the Cannes program and was awarded in the nomination "A special look". Now no one doubted the talent of Xavier.

History of Laurence

In 2012, Cannes premiered the next picture. Xavier Dolan's films never cease to amaze with their originality.

This time the director examines transsexuality. It would seem that a well-known tie: a man and a woman. They love each other, but the man finally decides to admit to himself the truth of his nature. He is preparing for an operation to change sex.

With each new film Dolan grows up. He demonstrates new visual techniques, without losing the main thing - the ability to masterfully tell stories.

The spectator begins to empathize with an unknown, despised many trance world, to see behind the grotesque masks of the face of living people.

Fans, and they have a lot of Xavier, began with close attention to keep track of news about the artist's plans. In 2012, information appears on the screen version of the play by Michael Bachard. His "Tom on the farm" was going to remove himself Xavier Dolan. Photos from the Venice Film Festival delighted fans. Dolan not only completed the film's production process, but also participates with him in the contest program.

Country pastoral

From the first minutes of the picture, we see a tape of a motorway, lost in the vastness of meadows and fields. But only from the rural serenity does not remain a trace, as soon as the main character gets to know the family of his deceased boyfriend. Instead of the expectedly divided grief, Tom encounters a mother who does not know about the true nature of her son. In addition, from the brother of the deceased, there is unconcealed hatred of gays.

Many critics hastened to compare the impact of the new picture of Xavier with the phenomenon of Hitchcock's thrillers. The same obvious sense of danger from the screen. Almost tangible fury, the inevitability of the tragic finale. The spectator on one's own skin feels fear, anxiety and expectation of a brutal denouement.

In "Tom" Dolan again took up the lead role. Fans were able to enjoy not only directing, but also acting as a genius of independent cinema.

However, the rancor also increased. However, their escapades were not heard by the jury of the festival, which awarded the ribbon a prize.

Xavier Dolan is not inclined to dismiss criticism in his address. He uses detailed reviews of his work to further grind the technique. At the same time, he stresses in an interview that he is trying not to yield too much to fanfare or to malicious remarks by ill-wishers.

Future plans

The fifth film is supposed to be called "Mommy". In it, the director will return to the topic of relations between mother and son. It will be a story about a woman who took on a boy with a dark, obscure past.

And Xavier Dolan will appear as an actor in the film based on the play "The Song of the Elephants".

Facts from personal life

As for facts that are not related to creativity, the director carefully keeps silent. Even in the most frank interviews, Dolan does not disclose the details of his life. He generously shares his plans, experiences. He does not skimp on the words when discussing his films. However, it is impossible to find out information about who Xavier Dolan is meeting. Personal life, in his opinion, should remain exactly that. He made his kumping-out, and that's it. Such a position deserves respect.

The young genius of independent cinema is not even thirty. Taking into account his energetic energy, his desire to shoot and take off, we can expect many more great films in the future.