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10/28/2014

Tom a the Farm/Tom à la Ferme (2013) - Intense, eerie sub/dom-themed sex thriller (without sex)



+ Best Canadian Movie of the Year

Xavier Dolan plays the lead as Tom in his own Tom at the Farm



Tom arrives at his late boyfriend's childhood home, where his controlling brother lives with the mother, who is to be kept in the dark according to his design...

French-Canadian master director whiz kid Xavier Dolan (I Killed My Mother (2009)) radically changes tracks here with his 4th feature film, which is a creeping thriller adaptation of a play by Michel Marc Bouchard (Lilies (1987)).
Thematically, Tom, at its core, is a reflection on kinky sub/dom-fetishes, - but it's also about big city alienation, loss and psychopathy.
The film bolsters some strong scenes, among them a hot tango-scene, (the closest this brazen picture gets to a sex scene.) And strong acting, especially from Dolan in the lead and from Pierre-Yves Cardinal (Polytechnique (2009)) as the dangerous brother and Lise Roy (The Barbarian Invastions (2003)) as the innocuous mother.
The ending is a bit unresolved, but the film is good.
Dolan's acting talent can soon also be seen in the highly anticipated thriller Elephant Song (2014) co-starring Bruce Greenwood (Flight (2012)).


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Watch the trailer with English subtitles here

Cost: Unknown
Box office: Unknown

= Unknown
[No financial results are known for the movie, unfortunately. It did win the FIPRESCI-award (critics' award) at Venice Film Festival 2013, where it premiered, and it was also nominated for a slew of awards at the Canadian Screen Awards.]

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