the painting scene.

Has the mentality of high school film class project, including the delightful stupidness.

So Dolan is like a post-modern James Dean being directed by Godard, huh? I'm just kidding, and I know the director is honest about this story -- I guess. This is just a silly, artsy and uneven feature: the pictoric filmmaking achieves some good looking frames -- and bold sequences --, but there is this naive, juvenile sense that every shot should look like, you know, art.

There are scenes that make me shudder, but overall I actually like his style - it's fresh and honest. In context of Dolan's age and his DIY approach to film making I was pretty blown away.

hikaye sikko olsa da, düsük bütce bir film icin guzel gorsellige ve oyunculuga sahip.

Too artistic and abnoxious: not my cup of tea. About 70% of the dialogue consists of people screaming

Has the mentality of high school film class project, including the delightful stupidness.

brilliant movie.. hard to believe that it's the debut movie of such a young director.. Great storytelling (altough theres not much to tell), fun dialogues, one of the best homosexual love scenes on screen..

nisan 10 (festivalde iki kere izledigim tek film) 29. ist. film fest. atlas sinemasi. bi kere cansu bi kere de anne-baba ile.. & festivalin belki de en iyi filmiydi. diyaloglarin hepsi sonuca gidiyor, tikanma yok. araya konulmus olan, muzikle desteklenmis sahneler hic siritmiyor ve tempoya - filmin dengesine cok uygun olarak yerlestirilmis. yonetmenin 89lu ve ilk filmi olduguna inanmak guc. yonetmen basrol olmanin altindan da basari ile kalkiyor. gercekten buyuk bir basari..

Pros: I liked a scene or two. Cons: Unnecessarily ostentatious direction, shrilly pitched emotional histrionics, really terrible staging, art-school pretension.

"If the attention Dolan pays to his character's struggle with the paradox of loving his mother without actually liking her feels remarkably honest, his style of shooting feels anything but." - Ed Gonzalez

incrivelmente ruim, MUITO adolescente, com toda a arrogância e pretensão que isso acarreta. só pra terem uma ideia, numa das cenas do filme a mãe chega com uma jaqueta nova e o filho diz que a jaqueta é feia e que ele tinha bom gosto. o filho falou isso usando um macacão, o mesmo que ele usou depois de dar a bunda pro namorado. então assim, kitsch, não kitsch, academicismo escroto puro. que o xavier dolan brilhe no louvre, e deixe o cinema pra quem saca da ambiguidade de verdade.