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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘Laurence’ marks Melvil’s first encounter with the director, a choice made expedient by a last-minute casting dropout for the lead, while Clement featured in “J’ai Tué Ma Mère,” where Dolan first ...

Gus Van Sant has jumped aboard Xavier Dolan‘s “Laurence Anyways” as one of the film’s executive producers. He joins Lyse Lafontaine, Nathanaël Karmitz and Charles Gillibert on the film’s producing ...

As a major festival like Cannes wears on, my notebook accumulates more scrawl than I can translate into full blog posts. So, behold! The first of likely several notebook dumps, with thoughts on John ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mercifully, he seldom loses sight of his story and the romantic ecstasies and agonies endured by its ardent lovers, whose affair collapses half-way through, which is to give nothing away. The cause of ...

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 ...