With Heartbeats, Xavier Dolan captures the beautiful absurdity of unrequited love. Two friends fall for the same enigmatic stranger, and their friendship slowly unravels under the weight of fantasy and projection. Stylish, playful, and emotionally raw, the film examines how desire often says more about our own longing than about the person we chase. Dolan’s pop-infused aesthetic turns heartbreak into something both painfully relatable and strangely glamorous. — Fay Nass, Queering Cinema curator
A fizzing delight that tips a nod to the masters of the French New Wave without sacrificing its identity or sense of freshness. Recommended.
David Parkinson, Empire
A sweet and creamy, puffed-up dessert of a film.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Xavier Dolan
Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider, Anne Dorval, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Olivier Morin
Canada
2010
In French and English with English subtitles
Book Tickets
Thursday April 16
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Credits
Producer
Xavier Dolan, Carole Mondello, Daniel Morin
Screenwriter
Xavier Dolan
Cinematography
Stéphanie Weber Biron
Editor
Xavier Dolan
Original Music
The Knife, Dalida
Production Design
Xavier Dolan
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This year’s Queering Cinema brings together films that inhabit the space where desire collides with displacement, fantasy, power, migration, and risk.
Fucktoys Advance Screening + Annapurna Sriram Q&A
Bold, irreverent, and fiercely queer, Fucktoys plunges into a world where pleasure, performance, and identity collide. This special advance screening comes with a Q&A with filmmaker Annapurna Sriram.
