“I’ve learned is that it is very important in this business to never doubt yourself, although it’s just as crucial to doubt your ideas”

The brilliant young director talks about “Mommy”, his creative process & his collaboration with DP André Turpin

Published on thefilmbook blog on ascmag.com web site

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Link:

http://bit.ly/XavierDolanMommyThefilmbook

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Xavier Dolan’s film is about a flamboyant mother who home-schools her turbulent teenage son with the help of school teacher neighbor.

This inventive feature was shot on 35mm film in the unusual 1:1 format by André Turpin.

Dolan’s film shared the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival with Jean-Luc Godard’s 3D film, Goodbye to Language.

I discuss both films in my post about Cannes 2014 entitled
Freeform Filmmaking
and I also did interviews with Xavier and André.
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Links:

YouTube: trailer

thefilmbook: Mommy: Interview wit Xavier Dolan

thefilmbook: Mommy – Interview with André Turpin

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