Xavier Dolan wants to shoot his next film in 2025 and has revealed that the story, which will integrate elements of horror and comedy, will transport us to France at the end of the 19th century.e century.
“It will be an amalgamation of several genres,” he said, adding that “the story will take place in 1895 in Parisian literary high society, but also in the countryside.”
The gifted filmmaker gave these details about this new project, first mentioned on the podcast Without filterlast August, during a master class he offered at the Lumière Festival in Lyon on Monday.
His comments were reported by the French press.
At the moment, the film has neither title nor distribution.
During his stay in Lyon, Xavier Dolan also attended a special presentation 10e anniversary of his film Mommywhich received the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.
Retirement
It has now been five years since Dolan, who began his career at a breakneck pace by shooting no less than eight feature films in ten years, has been absent from the big screen.
After Matthias and Maximereleased in 2019, he filmed the acclaimed TV series The night when Laurier Gaudreault woke up and played in Lost illusionsa movie by Xavier Giannoli.
In 2023, in a message published on social networks, he announced his retirement from cinema and that he wanted to devote himself to television projects. “I don’t want to make films anymore since they don’t make me happy,” he explained.
Second chapter
A year later, he changed his mind. Chairing the jury of the Un certain regard section, during the last Cannes Film Festival, gave him back “the desire to create”.
In Lyon, Xavier Dolan, 35, said that he is beginning the second chapter of his career and that there is no question of reproducing the infernal pace that was his during his twenties. “I know I will never be able to maintain the same pace as before,” he said.
“As I change, as I age, as I grow, as I evolve, I like to have time to think, to reflect. I’m not interested in an approach that consists of one film after another, each of which must be better than the last. I can’t start from scratch every time. I need to build something and have the feeling of moving forward.”
- For his 10th birthday, Mommy will be the subject of a series of 35 mm screenings in Quebec. The first will take place on 1is November, at the Outremont Theater, in the presence of the director as well as the actors Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon and Suzanne Clément.
