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Xavier Dolan-Tadros CQ CM (born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first received international acclaim in 2009 for his feature film directorial debut, I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère), which he also starred in, wrote, and produced, and which premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section and won three awards from the program Since 2009, he has written and directed eight feature films, all of which have premiered at Cannes, with the exception of Tom at the Farm—which premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in 2013—and his first English-language film, The Death & Life of John F. Donovan, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Dolan has also directed music videos, notably with Adele for her singles "Hello" (2015), and "Easy on Me" (2021), for which he received a Grammy Award for Best Music Video nomination. Dolan has won many accolades for his work, including the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for Mommy and the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for It's Only the End of the World. He has also won several Canadian Screen Awards and César Awards. Outside of his own films, he has also starred in films from other directors, such as Elephant Song (2014), Boy Erased (2018), Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), and It Chapter Two (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Xavier Dolan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
An original hard-R jukebox musical that follows the lives and daily struggles of two lost young souls — Hudson, a self-destructive alcoholic and hard rock-wannabe poet, and his ex-girlfriend, Jane, a recently-clean and sober prostitute who's having trouble paying the bills and, unbeknownst to him, is pregnant with his child — as we see how their shattered dreams of the past and their conflicted longing in the present might determine what lies in store for them in their futures. The story, at once a sobering character study and a scathing social critique, is set in the mean streets of early 1980's New York, inspired by the works of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Bob Fosse, Spike Lee, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, Julie Taymor, Paul Verhoeven, and especially narrative-wise, the Technicolor melodramas of Douglas Sirk. The rock opera features covers of numerous timeless songs from various influential bands and groundbreaking artists, such as Robert Tepper, Green Day, Pink Floyd, Ben Moody feat. Anastacia, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Jefferson Starship, Styx, Heart, Electric Light Orchestra, Nazareth, The Who, Janis Joplin, Eagles, Meat Loaf, Def Leppard, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Laura Branigan, Simon & Garfunkel, Bee Gees, Elvis Presley, Berlin, Billy Joel, Cream, Queen, and Chris Isaak.
