Okay, Xavier Dolan is beautiful. No doubts about that, no confusion, no arguments. However, when a twenty year old filmmaker makes something like 'I Killed My Mother', there should be some conversation about it. And besides being incredibly powerful, Dolan has been unapologetic, magnificiently brave and intelligent in the making of the film. Although it could have been a little briefer in expression in certain contexts, the elongation and endurance of longer takes does make the portrayal sound and look more poetic, and hence more real.
The complexity of the adolescent psyche has been depicted with great care, and the characters and their conversations, and their loneliness and legacy have been put together like a warm colour palette from one of Gustav Klimt's paintings - only that this time they are more blue, a luminescent, more melancholic yet expressive palette of blue. 'I Killed my Mother' is a wonderful film, and something that has the power to change the perception of homophobes about a lot of gruesome things they believe they are incapable of changing. Works like this would at least go on insisting that there is ample hope for art to survive doomed times as ours.
Here are twenty seven stills that I felt were worthwhile.
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