I Killed My Mother (2009)

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Canada

Feature Film

Original Title: J'ai tué ma mere

Writer/Director: Xavier Dolan

Cinematographer: Stéphanie Weber-Biron

Composer: Nicholas Savard-L'Herbier

Cast: Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval, François Arnaud, Suzanne Clément, Patricia Tulasne, Niels Schneider

With its striking photography and unusual mise en scène, 19-year-old Dolan’s consummately crafted semi-autobiographical directorial debut proves itself to be an assured and stylish work of numerous delights, as it relates to us the story of a tumultuous (and very shouty) love/hate relationship that builds up between a hard working but short-tempered single mother and her even shorter-tempered, hormones-racing 16-year-old son. Iain.Stott