Mommy

Director: Xavier Dolan

2014 / 139min / DCP

Québécois enfant terrible Dolan was 25 years old when he took home the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for his anguished, ardent Monreal-set melodrama, shot in a distinctive, smartphone-style 1:1 aspect ratio, about a vivacious widow (Anne Dorval) who’s forced by circumstance to remove her dangerously hyperactive teenaged son (Antoine Olivier Pilon) from an institution and attempt to homeschool him, this unstable domestic situation further complicated by the increased presence of a stammering, painfully shy school teacher neighbor (Suzanne Clément).

“A transgressive treat… An uproariously emotional movie, to all appearances painfully personal and featuring performances which are almost operatic in scale.”—The Guardian

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