Xavier Dolan, the writer-director of
Laurence Anyways, has said his film is about “impossible
love.”
The 23-year-old Dolan premiered his
latest film at Cannes Film Festival, where it won the festival's
third annual LGBT prize, the Queer Palm.
In Dolan's film, Laurence Alia (played
by Melvil Poupaud), an accomplished writer and teacher, tells his
fiancee Fred Belair (Suzanne Clement), who works in the film
industry, that he has always been a woman, even if he was born a man,
and that he's ready to begin transitioning to a woman.
In an appearance on the CBC's Q, the
French-Canadian wunderkind said Laurence Anyways completed his
“impossible love” trilogy, which includes I Killed My Mother
and Heartbeats.
Dolan said he made Laurence Anyways
because he “wanted to talk about love.”
“I wanted to close this exercise of
talking about unrequited love and impossible love. Transsexuality
without ever being accessory, because I would never treat it that way
and I would not want to, was for me a secondary intrigue or … it
was just a pretext for me to talk about the ultimate difference and
the ultimate challenge that a couple can face. This movie is about
authenticity in the couple,” he
said.