By David Steinitz
psychological thriller in the Hitchcock tradition: The Canadian director Xavier Dolan Wunderkind takes “Do not tell who you are!” In the viewer on a shore excursion. The 25-year-old proves it an almost uncanny intuition.
When men fight each other, then they do not have to fight – they can also dance together. A couple cant give young men and Tom Francis in the dark barn adjacent to the farmhouse from the rays of the afternoon sun shining through the small window of the barn door, in the background, the straw bales stacked. Always rotates faster Francis Tom music from the ghetto blaster in a circle, pushing him ever closer to him until it barely gets air and Francis ‘saliva injected into his face while he anzischt him that he can not let him go.’ / p>
“Do not tell me who you are! / Tom à la ferme” is the fourth feature film by French-Canadian director Xavier Dolan, who since his directorial debut “I have my mother killed” in 2009 as a child prodigy of the international art cinema is celebrated – at that time he was just twenty
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hardly another young director has in recent years at the festivals in Cannes and Venice, where his films had their world premieres, such as organized hype around him. With his first three works – after the debut was followed by the Ménage à trois “Heartbreaker” and the transgender tale “Laurence Anyways” – he has circled the theme of impossible love in various sexual situations. And so colorful and so obliquely, that part of the Dolan hype and simply therefore came about because he was irritated at least as many viewers as enthusiastic.
Dolan’s first attempt at a full-blown genre work
With special voltage therefore was “Do not tell me who you are!” expected of last fall’s premiere in competition at the Festival of Venice had – because it is his first attempt at a full-blown genre work after the three brightly colored piñatas. The film is based on a play by Canadian playwright Michel Marc Bouchard of 2010, together with him Dolan wrote the script.
Tom (Dolan) is a twenty-something hipster from Montreal, who works in the advertising industry and there was romantically involved with his peers colleagues Guillaume. When he dies – suicide is indicated – decides Tom to go to his funeral in the Canadian province, although the friend has hidden his homosexuality to his family
On a farm Guillaume living elderly, unworldly mother and. his older brother Francis (Pierre-Yves Cardinal). Tom’s merely a good friend of, but Francis sees through the concert, pierces the tire of his car and forces him to stay on the farm and audition the mother that her son had had a girlfriend in Montreal. More and more the aggressive Francis increase in its homophobia, beats and humiliates Tom – and makes him simultaneously advances
Dolan staged the story as schizophrenic psycho thriller in the Hitchcock tradition.. His composer Gabriel Yared is the soundtrack so far as to imitate the wrong violin sounds from “Psycho”. What Dolan fascinated, is the desire to abuse – and not the abuse, but the Abused Will, because Tom can be paralyzed always voluntary on Francis’ games a
end to the pomp of the past
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“Do not tell me who you are!” is no longer characterized by quite as much experimentation as Dolan’s previous films, because he has prescribed a great formal rigor and purification for its homage to the thriller genre – an end to the pomp of the past. This also means that he almost entirely dispensed with long shots and the most scenic spots in local and close-ups showing off, can close in the small but concise details on the overall environment.
But again proves the now 25 year-old Dolan an almost uncanny intuition in terms of the composition of images, just by the narrowing of the visual field. An operation by the way, he continues to drive in his already screened at Cannes follow-on “Mommy” on the top: The film is shot in mobile format
Although Dolan for his adaptation of the original four-person play about. additional staff and some locations has expanded, Tom Francis and remain the focus of his attention. And what, despite all the differences in shape but then connects this fatal borderline couples with the lover of his previous films, is that everyone Flirting at Dolan continues to have only a war -., And vice versa
Tom à la ferme , Canada / France 2013 – Director: Xavier Dolan. Michel Marc Bouchard book, Xavier Dolan. Camera: Andre Turpin. By: Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy, Evelyne Brochu. Kool Film Distribution, 102 minutes.
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