Following the rare footsteps of Nicolas Roeg, Mario Bava, Barry Sonnenfeld, Zhang Yimou, Jack Cardiff, and more, cinematographer André Turpin also tries his hand at directing every so often. After beautiful work on Mommy, Tom at the Farm, Incendies, he recently returned to Tiff with his first directorial work in 14 years, the mystery drama Endorphine. We now have the first trailer following the premiere, which has us highly intrigued with its evocative imagery and plotting, and hopefully U.S. distribution will follow soon.
“The intricately crafted script keeps us constantly uncertain whether what we’re seeing is present, past, future, or alternate reality,” Tiff’s Magali Simard says. “Turpin compounds the complexity with an extraordinary editing technique, putting the images through an obsessive process of repetition that reveals layer after layer of meaning. From its mysterious opening sequence to its absorbing conclusion, Endorphine is a relentless intellectual stimulant, inducing an...
“The intricately crafted script keeps us constantly uncertain whether what we’re seeing is present, past, future, or alternate reality,” Tiff’s Magali Simard says. “Turpin compounds the complexity with an extraordinary editing technique, putting the images through an obsessive process of repetition that reveals layer after layer of meaning. From its mysterious opening sequence to its absorbing conclusion, Endorphine is a relentless intellectual stimulant, inducing an...
- 9/17/2015
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Read More: Tiff Artistic Director Cameron Bailey On The Promise of Canadian Cinema A new trailer has been released for André Turpin's latest film, "Endorphine," giving a glimpse into a backwards world where time and reality are never quite as they seem. The film follows three women, all named Simone. The first Simone is a young girl with Ptsd; the second Simone is a woman who confronts her mother's killer; and the third Simone is a celebrated doctor who can only achieve orgasm in her sleep. As the three Simones learn to cope with their personal traumas, they are led down a hypnotic and confusing rabbit-hole of self-discovery. Based on the trailer above, the film seems to promise some mind-bending moments of altered reality. At one point, the eldest Simone says, "The external world exists. Perhaps. Perhaps not." Sophie Nélisse, Myléne Mackay and Lise Roy star as the three Simones,...
- 9/14/2015
- by Ryan Anielski
- Indiewire
The enfant terrible of Quebecois cinema Xavier Dolan has made a name for himself among critics and festival audiences with such stylized, emotionally extravagant films as the epic trans romance Laurence Anyways and the in-your-face family drama Mommy. But it turns out he can direct a mean thriller as well. Well, sort of. Tom at the Farm, adapted by Dolan and Michel Marc Bouchard from Bouchard’s own play, has the outward trappings of a genre piece. And as such, it’s fairly suspenseful. But at heart, it’s still very much an Xavier Dolan film — ragged, explosive, and often moving.The story concerns Tom (Dolan, looking like he stole Meg Ryan’s hair from City of Angels), who arrives at the rural family home of his deceased boyfriend Guillaume to attend a memorial service. But he learns that Guillaume’s mom, Agathe (Lise Roy), doesn’t know that her...
- 8/15/2015
- by Bilge Ebiri
- Vulture
I Need a Lover with a Farm Hand: Dolan’s Latest a Filet of Self Loathing
For his fourth feature, Xavier Dolan adapts the material of another for the first time with Michel Marc Bouchard’s play, Tom at the Farm, a rural set psychological thriller that’s been described as queer noir, but perhaps homoneurotic would be a better descriptor. A foreboding set-up leads to an uncomfortable exploration of self-loathing that sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t, as the material, which exemplifies a vicious and virulent homophobia still very much alive today, somehow still feels like a period piece character study.
We quickly gather that Tom (Dolan) has recently lost his lover Guillaume in a mysterious accident as he scrawls desperate notes to himself on a napkin, trying to rationalize and contain the raging heartbreak he’s experiencing all by himself. He travels to visit Guillaume’s estranged mother...
For his fourth feature, Xavier Dolan adapts the material of another for the first time with Michel Marc Bouchard’s play, Tom at the Farm, a rural set psychological thriller that’s been described as queer noir, but perhaps homoneurotic would be a better descriptor. A foreboding set-up leads to an uncomfortable exploration of self-loathing that sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t, as the material, which exemplifies a vicious and virulent homophobia still very much alive today, somehow still feels like a period piece character study.
We quickly gather that Tom (Dolan) has recently lost his lover Guillaume in a mysterious accident as he scrawls desperate notes to himself on a napkin, trying to rationalize and contain the raging heartbreak he’s experiencing all by himself. He travels to visit Guillaume’s estranged mother...
- 8/10/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Tom At The Farm Movie Trailer. Xavier Dolan‘s Tom At The Farm (2013) movie trailer stars Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy, Evelyne Brochu and Manuel Tadros. Tom At The Farm‘s plot synopsis: “A grieving man meets his lover’s family, who were not aware of their son’s sexual orientation.” This trailer is pretty captivating. By the end I was excitedly […]...
- 7/2/2015
- by Marco Margaritoff
- Film-Book
"Is that all you've got?" Amplify Releasing has debuted the official Us trailer for Xavier Dolan's other film Tom at the Farm, which he wrote and directed (and starred in) back in 2013. The film first premiered at festivals two years ago and has been waiting for a Us release ever since, despite hitting theaters in Canada and Europe in spring of 2014 (and in the meantime releasing his other film Mommy). Dolan stars as Tom, a grieving man who heads to a rural farm to meet his lover's family. It's a very mysterious, quirky, odd, but beautiful thriller of sorts. We featured another trailer for this two years ago, but this new one is also worth watching. Co-starring Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy & Evelyne Brochu. This one is recommended. Here's the new official Us trailer for Xavier Dolan's Tom at the Farm, in high def from Apple: Tom (Dolan) has...
- 7/1/2015
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
I saw Xavier Dolan's psychological thriller Tom at the Farm at the Toronto Film Festival two years ago, but it never found its way to U.S. theaters following that screening. Thanks to Amplify it's finally making its way stateside, set to release on Aug. 14 and the first official domestic trailer is now here. Written, directed by and starring Dolan, the film centers on Tom, a young advertising copywriter, travels to the country for a funeral. There, he's shocked to find out no one knows who he is, or his relationship to the deceased, whose brother soon sets the rules of a twisted game. In order to protect the family's name and grieving mother, Tom now has to play the peacekeeper in a household whose obscure past bodes even greater darkness for his trip to the farm. readmore postid="136687" As much as I love Dolan and will gladly watch...
- 7/1/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Xavier Dolan tied contemporaries Philippe Falardeau and Denis Villeneuve by winning his second Best Feature award at the 17th annual Jutra Awards. Quebec’s answer to the Oscars was a rather suspense-less affair as Mommy claimed nine (plus the top box office award honor) awards winning in all major categories with the exclusion of Best Supporting Actor category win, which would only end up going to Dolan’s other nominated film, Tom at the Farm. Pierre-Yves Cardinal was sublime in his predatory type role and as was the case for several nominees, was hard at work on another project and therefore not on hand for trophyware. Ricardo Trogi’s throwback to awkward teen years tale 1987 did win a trio of awards, but if there were any surprises in the Dolan camp it was the acceptance speeches: Dolan delivered a keynote speech type quality for the last win of the night...
- 3/16/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
★★★★☆Prodigious Canadian writer and director Xavier Dolan's fifth feature, Mommy (2014), took home a Jury Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Before Mommy comes to UK cinemas next year, Dolan's fourth film, Tom at the Farm (2013), based on a play by Michel Marc Bouchard, arrives on DVD and Blu-ray. Tom at the Farm is a strange, off-kilter drama starring Dolan himself as Tom, a recently bereaved gay man visiting his deceased lover's home for the funeral. It soon becomes clear that his mother, Agathe (Lise Roy), is unaware of her dead son's sexual orientation, an ignorance that her older son, Francis (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), is determined to preserve.
- 8/26/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
As of this writing, wunderkind French-Canadian director Xavier Dolan at the age of 25 is premiering his fifth feature film, Mummy, on the Croisette. Making its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival, however, is Dolan's fourth work, Tom at the Farm, which screened in competition at the 70th Venice International Film Festival last year.Tom, who is played by Dolan himself, is a grief-stricken copywriter from the city who must travel to the country in rural Quebec for the funeral of his boyfriend Guillaume. The uncanny attributes of his lover's family farm become immediately clear when Tom is treated both as an outsider and a loved son by grief-stricken and lonely single mother Agathe (Lise Roy). The stark and empty confines of the farm, combined with the dithering...
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- 6/3/2014
- Screen Anarchy
A friend of mine in film studies once grimaced when I mentioned the name Xavier Dolan, bottling up the same rage that a film student would typically give to Uwe Boll or Michael Bay. The anger was misplaced: Dolan has not yet directed anything that would be considered bad or even close to bad, but he is an extremely prodigious young filmmaker. Dolan is only 25, yet earlier this week, he screened his fifth film, Mommy, at the Cannes Film Festival – one that is already being touted as a major contender for world cinema’s most prestigious prize, the Palme D’Or. It is his fourth film to screen at Cannes. When you have reached that peak of critical adoration by your mid-twenties, it is hard not to be a bit envious.
Dolan is a Québécois director who often tells stories about the fractious relationships between gay children and their parents.
Dolan is a Québécois director who often tells stories about the fractious relationships between gay children and their parents.
- 5/22/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
★★★☆☆ French-Canadian filmmaking prodigy Xavier Dolan (Heartbeats, I Killed My Mother) takes Oscar Wilde's "The love that dare not speak its name" adage to new extremes in repression thriller Tom at the Farm (2013). Dolan inserts himself into the title role of Tom, an ad agency editor who finds himself in the backwaters of Canada for his dead boyfriend Guillaume's funeral. Established in the creaky farmstead, Tom finds a wide-eyed, white-haired mother (Lise Roy), who is oblivious to her son's homosexuality and more than a little off her rocker. Also present is the bullish Francis (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), a threatening figure who milks cows to mask his own latent desires.
- 4/8/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
An overwrought pastiche of Hitchcock that makes less sense and renders its protagonist far less plausible the longer it goes on. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): haven’t been a fan of Xavier Dolan’s work so far
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Tom is at the farm, in the countryside outside Quebec, for the funeral of his boyfriend. Except his lover’s mother, Agathe (Lise Roy), has no idea her dead son was gay, so she believes Tom is simply his friend from the ad agency where they work(ed), and laments that “that whore” whom she believes to be her son’s girlfriend — thanks to the machinations of her other son, Francis (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), who has been “protecting” Mom from the truth by inventing stories — hasn’t shown up.
Writer, director, and star (he plays Tom) Xaviar Dolan...
I’m “biast” (con): haven’t been a fan of Xavier Dolan’s work so far
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Tom is at the farm, in the countryside outside Quebec, for the funeral of his boyfriend. Except his lover’s mother, Agathe (Lise Roy), has no idea her dead son was gay, so she believes Tom is simply his friend from the ad agency where they work(ed), and laments that “that whore” whom she believes to be her son’s girlfriend — thanks to the machinations of her other son, Francis (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), who has been “protecting” Mom from the truth by inventing stories — hasn’t shown up.
Writer, director, and star (he plays Tom) Xaviar Dolan...
- 4/4/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Tom at the Farm (Original title: Tom à la ferme)
Written and directed by Xavier Dolan
Canada, 2013
Since 2009’s I Killed My Mother, Xavier Dolan has been one of the darlings of Québec cinema. More so than Podz, Éric Canuel, Denis Côté, and rivaled probably only by Denis Villeneuve, the release of a new Dolan film brings with it mouth-watering anticipation. His movies straddle the line between the mainstream and the arthouse, glittering with cool cinematography tricks and crowd-pleasing soundtracks, but anchored by stories and characters not so popular amongst the general public. Each project earns considerable critical reputations, a lustre rarely matched by box office receipts. His latest, Tom at the Farm, despite having the blueprint of a more accessible film, continues his odyssey as an idiosyncratic filmmaker.
Tom (Dolan), a leather-jacket-wearing, bleach-blonde-haired Montrealer, drives to a small town in the provincial country to attend his friend Guillaume’s funeral.
Written and directed by Xavier Dolan
Canada, 2013
Since 2009’s I Killed My Mother, Xavier Dolan has been one of the darlings of Québec cinema. More so than Podz, Éric Canuel, Denis Côté, and rivaled probably only by Denis Villeneuve, the release of a new Dolan film brings with it mouth-watering anticipation. His movies straddle the line between the mainstream and the arthouse, glittering with cool cinematography tricks and crowd-pleasing soundtracks, but anchored by stories and characters not so popular amongst the general public. Each project earns considerable critical reputations, a lustre rarely matched by box office receipts. His latest, Tom at the Farm, despite having the blueprint of a more accessible film, continues his odyssey as an idiosyncratic filmmaker.
Tom (Dolan), a leather-jacket-wearing, bleach-blonde-haired Montrealer, drives to a small town in the provincial country to attend his friend Guillaume’s funeral.
- 3/28/2014
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Xavier Dolan's latest film, Tom at the Farm (Tom a la ferme), premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year and while it has yet to land a domestic distributor, it will be hitting Quebec theaters in March. Today a new trailer for the film arrives along with a poster that's been floating around since last December. As I wrote in my review of the film back in September 2013, Tom at the Farm is something of a departure from Dolan's first three features -- I Killed My Mother, Heartbeats and Laurence Anyways. It's a psychological thriller based on Michel Marc Bouchard's play of the same name, in which Dolan plays the title character, a young ad agency employee who takes a trip out to the country to attend a funeral only to learn the mother (Lise Roy) of the deceased doesn't know who he is or his relationship to her dead son,...
- 2/19/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
One of the more prominent names in Canadian cinema over the past few years has been that of filmmaker Xavier Dolan. Despite having only three feature length films in his writing and directing filmography, Dolan has garnered critical acclaim for his work from fans all over the world, with news of his involvement bringing a great deal of interest to a project. His newest feature, titled Tom à la ferme, or Tom at the Farm, is no different. Dolan once again takes on directing and writing duties, adapting the story from the play by Michel Marc Bouchard, as well as taking on the lead role. Joining Dolan onscreen is Evelyne Brochu, Lise Roy, and Caleb Landry Jones. A new trailer for the film has now been released, and can be seen below. Sound on Sight also saw the film at Tiff 2013, and our review can be read here.
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- 2/19/2014
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
"It's me, Tom. I'm Tom." Time for something a bit odd to wake you up today. A trailer has arrived online for the new film from acclaimed Quebecois filmmaker Xavier Dolan (Heartbeats, Laurence Anyways) titled Tom at the Farm, which just premiered at the Venice & Toronto Film Festivals. Dolan stars, as he always does, in his own film as a blonde-haired boy who travels to the countryside to attend the funeral of his lover, Guillaume, where things get a bit weird. As usual, the music in this is particularly moving (the second track is part of the score from The Last Airbender) and I'm intrigued by the footage, but that's the most I can say. Here's the first trailer for Xavier Dolan's Tom at the Farm, found on YouTube (via The Playlist): Tom (Dolan) has travelled to the countryside to attend the funeral of his lover, Guillaume. There...
- 10/4/2013
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
As everyone around these parts knows, I'm a big fan of 24-year-old writer/director/actor Xavier Dolan whose first three films -- I Killed My Mother, Heartbeats and Laurence Anyways -- are all excellent watches, the latter of which hits DVD and Blu-ray next Tuesday. Dolan's latest film, Tom at the Farm, is a departure from all three however. In my review out of Toronto I wrote, "Cinematically it feels unique in its own right and my first instinct is to call it some sort of B-movie thriller, though that too doesn't feel right, just as a tonal comparison to something like Repulsion or Diabolique is similarly wrong. Tom at the Farm has a madness all its own." Dolan adapted the film from Michel Marc Bouchard's play of the same name, and he plays the title character, a young advertising copywriter who takes a trip out to the country...
- 10/4/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Tom at the Farm
Written by Xavier Dolan
Directed by Xavier Dolan
Canada/ France, 2013
Quebecois director Xavier Dolan returns to Tiff in the Special Presentations programme with the gorgeously atmospheric psychological thriller, Tom at the Farm (Tom à la Ferme), shedding some of his visual compositions while embracing the themes of desire, loss, and attachment with mixed results in its overall plotting. The film is an adaptation of a French-language play of the same name by Michel Marc Bouchard, who worked with Dolan to bring the story to the big screen. Tom (played by Dolan) leaves Montreal for rural Quebec to attend the funeral of his lover, Guilliaume. While this would usually provide opportunities for a sense of closure and some semblance of inner peace, Tom is initially met by confusion and then eventual acceptance by Guilliaume’s world-weary mother Agathe, played by Lise Roy. Tom settles in, Agathe makes him a delicious home-cooked meal,...
Written by Xavier Dolan
Directed by Xavier Dolan
Canada/ France, 2013
Quebecois director Xavier Dolan returns to Tiff in the Special Presentations programme with the gorgeously atmospheric psychological thriller, Tom at the Farm (Tom à la Ferme), shedding some of his visual compositions while embracing the themes of desire, loss, and attachment with mixed results in its overall plotting. The film is an adaptation of a French-language play of the same name by Michel Marc Bouchard, who worked with Dolan to bring the story to the big screen. Tom (played by Dolan) leaves Montreal for rural Quebec to attend the funeral of his lover, Guilliaume. While this would usually provide opportunities for a sense of closure and some semblance of inner peace, Tom is initially met by confusion and then eventual acceptance by Guilliaume’s world-weary mother Agathe, played by Lise Roy. Tom settles in, Agathe makes him a delicious home-cooked meal,...
- 9/18/2013
- by Gregory Ashman
- SoundOnSight
Toronto - MK2 has unveiled a raft of international sales for Canadian director Xavier Dolan's Tom à la ferme (Tom At The Farm), which will be picked up by Network in the UK and MK2/Diaphana in France. The Canadian film, which was adapted from a stage play by Michel Marc Bouchard and stars Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy and Eveylne Brochu, was also sold to ABC Cinemien in the Benelux, Sweden's Folkets Bio, Spectator in Poland, Korea's Atnine Film, Taiwan's Filmware, and HBO in Latin America. Photos: Toronto 2013: The Films Continental also picked up the psychological thriller for the ex-Yugoslavia,
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- 9/9/2013
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Xavier Dolan has quickly become one of my favorite modern directors. His appeal, for me, goes beyond his stories (though they're great in their own right). It's his tonal approach to filmmaking, his understanding of cinema and ability to embrace the past and make it his own that's so intoxicating. So often a director influenced by the past gets caught up in mimicry and the final product feels somewhat alien. Dolan has no such issue. Up until now all of his films have felt like they came from somewhere extremely personal and now, here comes Tom at the Farm, a psychological thriller that's been hard to describe to anyone that's asked. It's a departure from Dolan's first three films -- I Killed My Mother, Heartbeats and Laurence Anyways -- for a wide range of reasons. While he wrote it, just as he did the other three, it's an adaptation, the...
- 9/7/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
This is Xavier Dolan’s fourth film and he has spoken of his first three features inadvertently being a trilogy about impossible love. Tom à la ferme is more of a psycho thriller and may not be about impossible love but it is about a love that cannot speak its name.
The first scene is a close-up of a napkin. A man is writing a love letter to his lover and the letter is also saying farewell. We then cut to the titular Tom (Xavier Dolan), all bleach blond curls and cute punk pixie, driving in the vast expanses of the Quebec countryside. Arriving at his destination, an isolated farm, he finds nobody home. Letting himself in, he falls asleep and is woken by the elderly female home owner, Agathe (Lise Roy).
Is he here for a job? No. Tom’s an advertising copywriter in Montreal and he’s here for his boyfriend’s funeral.
The first scene is a close-up of a napkin. A man is writing a love letter to his lover and the letter is also saying farewell. We then cut to the titular Tom (Xavier Dolan), all bleach blond curls and cute punk pixie, driving in the vast expanses of the Quebec countryside. Arriving at his destination, an isolated farm, he finds nobody home. Letting himself in, he falls asleep and is woken by the elderly female home owner, Agathe (Lise Roy).
Is he here for a job? No. Tom’s an advertising copywriter in Montreal and he’s here for his boyfriend’s funeral.
- 9/3/2013
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
★★★☆☆ Filmmaking prodigy Xavier Dolan directs and stars in Venice pick Tom at the Farm (2013), an absurd, blackly funny thriller set in rural Canada and based on the play by Michel Marc Bouchard. Tom (Dolan) is a dishwater-blonde city boy in an oversized leather jacket who drives from Montreal into the rainy countryside to attend his lover's funeral. Stopping at the farm where his partner grew up, he first meets his boyfriend's mother Agathe (Lise Roy), who knows nothing of his relationship or her son's homosexuality - an ignorance which Tom maintains. However, Agathe's other son Francis (Pierre-Yves Cardinal) is suspicious.
Francis insists that the deception goes further, with Tom being coerced and then violently bullied into embroidering tales of an invented girlfriend, Sarah, and staying on at the farm for a few days to please Agathe. Days become weeks as Tom is trapped and beaten by the psychopathic, tango-dancing Francis,...
Francis insists that the deception goes further, with Tom being coerced and then violently bullied into embroidering tales of an invented girlfriend, Sarah, and staying on at the farm for a few days to please Agathe. Days become weeks as Tom is trapped and beaten by the psychopathic, tango-dancing Francis,...
- 9/3/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
With his 2-hour and 45-minute drama Laurence Anyways set to debut in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes Film Festival this month, the 23-year-old Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan already has his sights set on his next film. The young writer/director/producer/actor is wasting little time, with his debut film I Killed My Mother premiering in 2009 (also at Cannes) and his follow-up, Heartbeats, just a year later.
Canoe via Twitch reports that he’ll next adapt Michel Marc Bouchard‘s play Tom à la Ferme, which opened last year in Montreal and translates to Tom on the Farm. Bouchard and Dolan first met after one of the showings of the play, where the latter asked if there is a film in the works and as there wasn’t, he said he would love to be the one to bring it to screen. Check out a synopsis of the play below.
Canoe via Twitch reports that he’ll next adapt Michel Marc Bouchard‘s play Tom à la Ferme, which opened last year in Montreal and translates to Tom on the Farm. Bouchard and Dolan first met after one of the showings of the play, where the latter asked if there is a film in the works and as there wasn’t, he said he would love to be the one to bring it to screen. Check out a synopsis of the play below.
- 5/7/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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