La Folie D'amour: The Xavier Dolan Collection - 3-DVD Box Set ( J'ai tué ma mère / Les amours imaginaires / Laurence Anyways ) ( I Killed My Mother / Heartbeats (Heart beats) / Laurence Any ways )

La Folie D'amour: The Xavier Dolan Collection - 3-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: J'ai tué ma mère / Les amours imaginaires / Laurence Anyways
Alternate Title: I Killed My Mother / Heartbeats (Heart beats) / Laurence Any ways
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Stockholm Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
354 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2009 - 2012 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Xavier Dolan

Written By:
Xavier Dolan

Actors:
Anne Dorval ..... Chantale Lemming
Xavier Dolan ..... Hubert Minel
François Arnaud ..... Antonin Rimbaud
Suzanne Clément ..... Julie Cloutier
Patricia Tulasne ..... Hélène Rimbaud
Niels Schneider ..... Éric
Monique Spaziani ..... Denise
Pierre Chagnon ..... Richard Minel
Justin Caron ..... Jeune Hubert
Benoît Gouin ..... Directeur du pensionnat
Johanne-Marie Tremblay ..... Enseignante au pensionnat
Hugolin Chevrette-Landesque ..... Pensionnaire agressif
Francis Ducharme ..... Pensionnaire agressif #2
Pascale Audrey ..... Professeur d'arts
Emile Mailhot ..... Élève
Monia Chokri ..... Marie
Niels Schneider ..... Nicolas
Xavier Dolan ..... Francis
Anne Dorval ..... Désirée
Anne-Élisabeth Bossé ..... Jeune femme 1
Olivier Morin ..... Jeune homme 1
Magalie Lépine Blondeau ..... Jeune femme
Éric Bruneau ..... Jeune homme 2
Gabriel Lessard ..... Jeune homme 3
Bénédicte Décary ..... Jeune femme 3
François Bernier ..... Baise 1
Benoît McGinnis ..... Baise
François-Xavier Dufour ..... Baise
Anthony Huneault ..... Antonin
Patricia Tulasne ..... Coiffeuse
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:

La Folie D'Amour presents three moving, provocative and visually stunning films from internationally acclaimed Québécois auteur Xavier Dolan. This confrontational and thought-provoking triptych begins with a cathartic and fiercely compelling account of an adolescent's love-hate relationship with his mother (I Killed My Mother - 2009) before moving on to a study of friendship turning to rivalry over an attractive, elusive newcomer (Heartbeats - 2010) and finishing with a couple's traumatic fight for survival and acceptance as one partner makes the transition from man to woman (Laurence Anyways - 2012). These astonishing, multi-award-winning films explore themes that are always deeply personal: fundamental questions of sexual identity and the boundaries of love, the testing of friendship, the obsessive nature of desire, and sexual awakening.

Collection of three films from French-Canadian director Xavier Dolan. In 'Heartbeats' (2010), after meeting confident, free-spirited traveller Nicolas (Niels Schneider) at a party, Marie (Monia Chokri) and her best friend Frankie (Dolan) quickly become infatuated with him. Before long, the three end up in bed together, but Nicolas, whose primary desire is securing a place to stay, provides neither Marie nor Frankie with the deep connection they were hankering after. In 'I Killed My Mother' (2009), 16-year-old Hubert (Dolan) appears on the surface to despise everything about his mother Chantale (Anne Dorval), from the way she dresses to her table manners, but Chantale has reasons to be displeased with her son as well - having found out that he is gay from a friend who mentions his boyfriend, Antonin (François Arnaud), she feels betrayed that Hubert has not told her about his sexuality. Partly as an act of vengeance, she separates the two boys by sending Hubert to boarding school. Will the relationship between mother and son ease with distance, or will the disaffection merely increase? In 'Laurence Anyways' (2012), 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 they 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?

I Killed My Mother (2009)
Teenager Hubert haughtily regards his mother with contempt, and only sees her tacky sweaters and kitsch decorations. In addition to these irritating surface details, there is also his parent's cherished mechanisms of manipulation and guilt. Confused by this love/hate relationship that obsesses him more and more each day, Hubert drifts through the mysteries of adolescence - artistic discoveries, illicit experiences, the opening-up to friendship, and ostracism. The turbulent relationship between mother and son unfolds with a compelling combination of savage fury and melting affection. The stunning, semi-autobiographical directing debut of 20-year-old actor Xavier Dolan.

Heartbeats (2010)
Bertolucci's The Dreamers meets Truffaut's Jules Et Jim and Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love in Heartbeats. 21-year-old writer/director/actor Xavier (I Killed My Mother) Dolan's lauded and visually stunning film on love, friendship and sexuality explores the complex relationship between three young people. Screened at Cannes in Un Certain Regard and at the London Film Festival. Francis and Marie are close friends. One day, during a lunch, they meet Nicolas, a young man from the country newly arrived in town. Each of the two friends slides deeper into obsessive fantasies around their object of desire, and the deeper they slide, the more their once cast-iron friendship begins to crack under the pressure of competing for the new kid on the block.

Laurence Anyways (2012)
A drama that charts ten years in the relationship of a male-to-female transsexual's relationship with her lover.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 07 October, 2013.