Xavier Dolan's Matthias & Maxime is showing exclusively on Mubi in many countries starting on August 28, 2020.Notebook: Matthias & Maxime feels like such a layered and nuanced work. What’s the main thing you want viewers to take away from the film?Xavier Dolan: I think the main thing that I’d love to know someone’s taken away from this is the sense of friendship, actually—towards my characters and towards the viewer’s own friends. This movie was always a love declaration to my friends, so, to me, it just makes sense that one would think of theirs while watching it, and just want to cherish them, and miss them. It might sound silly but I think it would be enough for me. And maybe also to know that it started, amongst men, maybe, a conversation about what it means to be masculine, what it means...
- 8/31/2020
- MUBI
Exclusive: Streaming platform Mubi has acquired multi-territory rights to Xavier Dolan’s Cannes 2019 drama Matthias & Maxime.
Curated arthouse service Mubi has acquired the VOD and TV rights in the U.S., UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Latam (excl. Mexico) and India. The film will debut on the service in those markets – where it hasn’t had a theatrical run yet – this summer.
Written, produced and directed by Dolan, the film tells the story of two childhood best friends Matthias (Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas) and Maxime, played by Dolan himself. The two men are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film and soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.
Also starring are Pier-Luc Funk, Samuel Gauthier, Antoine Pilon, Adib Alkhalidey, Anne Dorval, Micheline Bernard, Marilyn Castonguay and Catherine Brunet.
Curated arthouse service Mubi has acquired the VOD and TV rights in the U.S., UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Latam (excl. Mexico) and India. The film will debut on the service in those markets – where it hasn’t had a theatrical run yet – this summer.
Written, produced and directed by Dolan, the film tells the story of two childhood best friends Matthias (Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas) and Maxime, played by Dolan himself. The two men are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film and soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.
Also starring are Pier-Luc Funk, Samuel Gauthier, Antoine Pilon, Adib Alkhalidey, Anne Dorval, Micheline Bernard, Marilyn Castonguay and Catherine Brunet.
- 5/29/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Deemed as a return to his indie filmmaking roots, Xavier Dolan‘s film character sets will be forever tied to soundtracks that lyrically express a certain emancipation, a dissonance or what we could call a state of disavowed state of being. With tracks by Montreal indie rock bands Half Moon Run and Arcade Fire in the line-up, for Matthias & Maxime, Dolan collaborated with another local in classical pianist Jean-Michel Blais. In a film score that adds a degree of profundity to the (re)surfacing of deeply submerged truths in a character study that focalizes on the complex nature of friendship when repressed attraction is present; Blais cut his teeth in 2016 with top ten list mention and Grammy nom to com and has already become an influential modern composer with just two studio albums in.…...
- 6/6/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
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