Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Xavier Dolan's Matthias & Maxime is showing exclusively on Mubi in many countries starting on August 28, 2020.In 2012, Xavier Dolan made a statement. Anointed as the enfant prodige of the international festival circuit, recipient of reams of applauding critiques, the Canadian child actor-turned-director yet again mesmerized the French Riviera. His Lawrence Anyway, a bittersweet story of unforeseen impermanent love in the face of Lawrence’s quest for self-expression, won Suzanne Clément the Un Certain Regard award for Best Actress and the surprisingly controversial Queer Palm that Dolan refused to accept. In distancing himself from a prize that, in his view, marginalizes and ghettoizes films merely on the basis of their characters’ sexual orientation, Dolan preached a utopian reality, a post-labels dream of unbiased and egalitarian judgement. However, as this may be perceived as a privileged position that fails to acknowledge...
- 8/27/2020
- MUBI
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