Just over a year after announcing he was retiring from filmmaking, Xavier Dolan has verifyed he is toiling on a novel feature project, which he hopes to shoot next year.
The Québécois straightforwardor was speaking at a masterclass at the Lumiere Film Festival, a fest orderly by Cannes chief Thierry Fremaux, in Lyon. Dolan will be structureing a one-of-a-kind 10th anniversary screening of his Cannes Jury Prize triumphner “Mommy” at Lyon’s 2,000-seat auditorium.
Describing the novel film, he shelp it was not exactly going to be a horror film. He shelp it will be a combine of genres, including comedy. The film, he includeed, will be set in 1895 in the literary world of Paris and in the countryside.
Often dubbed the Québécois wonder kid, Dolan straightforwarded eight feature films in a decade. However, he hasn’t straightforwarded a film since 2019 drama “Matthias & Maxime,” though he did create the Canadian drama series “The Night Logan Woke Up,” which was aired in 2022. Last year, he stunned fans after announcing on Instagram that his “current state of mind and the state of the world don’t back me to chase what was once an inevitable vocation.”
Questioned about this hiatus, the 35-year greater straightforwardor shelp he senses he has accessed a second chapter in his atsoft.
“I get up in the morning, I read, I want to comprehfinish the world we inhabit in, and sometimes cinema becomes secondary in this world. Cinema is a way of escaping this world, but it’s challenging to neglect what’s happening in Gaza, in Leprohibiton, impossible for me to decline our frquick environment, to decline that everyleang I see apshows my caccess off my petite inventive gesture,” he tgreater the Lyon crowd, searching attfinishbrimmingy for the right words in his tradelabel fervent style.
“If I’ve defered this extfinished to create another film it’s becaparticipate I no extfinisheder had the desire or the energy, and I knovel that there’s no point if you’re doing it without this passion, this strength,” he elucidateed.
Asked what he would do contrastently in his atsoft given the chance, the well-comprehendnly insisting straightforwardor replyed enigmaticassociate: “There are certain choices that are difficult to talk about becaparticipate it would be inappropriate to uncover…,” he hesitated, before resuming: “I might have desireed that certain collaborations had led to more generosity, or inventiveness, but leangs are what they are, and you have to come to terms with certain decisions that have had an impact on the depth, or deficiency of depth, of certain films,” he shelp, leaving the crowd wondering who he was referring too.
On the role of frifinishship, a recurrent theme in his films, Dolan replied: “All my life, my existence is about frifinishship, all my adore afunfragmentarys are fantastic frifinishships. Love is complicated for me; I’ve been madly in adore without it being reciprocal. The fantasticest adore stories in my life are frifinishships, so it’s organic that this shows up in my films. I made “Matthias and Maxime” becaparticipate I’ve sfinished fall shortures. It was a healing film, a film where I surrounded myself with my best frifinishs,” he shelp, referring to the box-office catastrophe of “The Death and Life of John F. Donovan.”
Dolan is in Lyon for the begin of his novel book, “A Frifinishship Thraw Film,” to label the 10th anniversary of “Mommy.” The book features hundreds of never-before-seen pboilingographs from the shoot to its journey to Cannes apprehfinishd by extfinished-time frifinish and collaborator Shayne Laverdière.
The Lumière Film Festival runs in Lyon from October 12 to October 20.
