Laurence Anyways (2012) ( Laurence Any ways )

Laurence Anyways (2012) (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Laurence Any ways
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
Toronto International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
161 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Xavier Dolan

Written By:
Xavier Dolan

Actors:
Melvil Poupaud ..... Laurence Alia
Suzanne Clément ..... Fred Belair
Nathalie Baye ..... Julienne Alia
Monia Chokri ..... Stéfanie Belair
Susan Almgren ..... La journalis
Yves Jacques ..... Michel Lafortune
Sophie Faucher ..... Andrée Belair
Magalie Lépine Blondeau ..... Charlot
Catherine Bégin ..... Mamy Rose
Emmanuel Schwartz ..... Baby Rose
Jacques Lavallée ..... Dada Rose
Perrette Souplex ..... Tatie Ro
Patricia Tulasne ..... Shookie Rose
David Savard ..... Albert
Monique Spaziani ..... Francine

Synopsis:

Xavier Dolan writes and directs this French-Canadian romantic drama about the effect of a sex change on a long-standing heterosexual relationship. Literature teacher Laurence (Melvil Poupaud) and his partner Fred (Suzanne Clément) have shared a long and stable marriage, but Laurence has been harbouring a secret. One day he announces to Fred that he feels he has been living a lie for years, and that he can no longer go on living as a man when he knows that he is meant to be a woman. Initially shocked and saddened, Fred eventually pledges to support Laurence throughout his transition and aim for a shared future. However, the pressure on their relationship proves greater than either could have anticipated. Can their partnership survive such a monumental change?

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 polarize more on the basis of its stylistic politics than its sexual ones. Indeed, the clearest achievement of Dolan's typically self-indulgent eye-popper comes in equating its gender-bending protagonist's metamorphoses with those in any relationship that lasts for years. Stunningly gorgeous leads prove more than capable of eliciting emotion over the near-three-hour haul, though the pic's exhausting length and intensity will try even lovers of love stories, to the detriment of exposure and acclaim.

The 10-year relationship of a male-to-female transsexual with her lover.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 25 June, 2013.