+ Best Canadian Movie of the Year
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| 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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Laurence Anyways (2012) - Dolan serves a stylish, jumbled, massive transsexualism tale
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.]
What do you think of Tom at the Farm?
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