Laurence Anyways
WINNER: Best Actress - Un Certain Regard - 2012 Cannes Film Festival
WINNER: Queer Palm - 2012 Cannes Film Festival
WINNER: Best Canadian Feature - 2012 Toronto International Film Festival
"An Astonishing Achievement" The New York Times (Critic's Pick)
"Essential viewing" Entertainment Weekly
"Extraordinary" L.A. Times
"Breathtaking" Indiewire
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Deleted Scenes
SYNOPSIS
The third film from Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan (I Killed My Mother, Heartbeats) is an epic, visually stunning romance featuring the soundtrack of the year. Laurence, a high school literature teacher and soon-to-be-published author, enjoys an intense and mutually loving relationship with his girlfriend Fr©d©rique. But on the day after his 35th birthday, Laurence confesses to Fred that he longs to become a woman, asking her to support his transformation. The film follows the course of the couple's on-again, off-again relationship throughout the 1990s.