CINEMA DAY: Laurence anyways

Laurence Anyways (2012) 

Director: Xavier Dolan 

If you ask me about my favorite film director, I’ll definitely answer that it’s Xavier Dolan. My acquaintance with Xavier happened while watching the movie “Mommy”, after which I fell in love with him. This film left an indelible impression after watching. And till now “Mommy” remains one of my favorite films and furthermore I think that Xavier made a great work and he is a genius coz every detail, every moment is conveyed so realistically that you are not even though immersed in this atmosphere. His every movie is an art, coz his impeccable style to film, actors, dialogues and music merge into one and thus forming a masterpiece. So, as you could understand, I watch all his films, the last one was “Juste la fin du monde”, but this Saturday I want to do a review about “Laurence anyways”. 

This movie is about a professor, who works in college, writes his first poetic book and lives a happy life with his girlfriend. But there is a problem; he feels uncertainty being in a male body, he feels like he should be a woman. All begins when his girlfriend finds out about his decision to change his gender. Then we plunge into a three-hour scene that shows us the life of a man who decided to become a woman, shows the labor through which he passed, the support of a beloved girl and finally the reassessment of values and the adoption of an important decision in life. And if you think that this is a film about transsexuals, then I want to disappoint you,well, or rejoice, coz this movie is about very beautiful and strong love story, which doesn’t know any barriers. 

In this film you will not see the transformation and operations, it isn’t important at all, the most important thing to see is what people go through, what they do for the sake of gaining freedom, of trying to find themselves and to find that without what thing they will not be able to live. “Laurence Anyways” is a good example, which shows that love and support are the main things in human’s life. 

Do you know what I love the most of all in Xavier? He has talent to show trivial problems, such as love, relationship with society, family, parents, but also his unusual vision which made typical films about love, which could be filmed by millions of other directors, the unusual ones.