Realização:
Xavier DolanElenco:
Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider, Xavier Dolan, Louis Garrel, Anne Dorval, Sophie Desmarais, Olivier Morin, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Peter Benedict (mais)Conteúdos(1)
Francis (Xavier Dolan) e Marie (Monia Chokri) são grandes amigos. Certo dia, durante um almoço, conhecem Nicolas (Niels Schneider), um jovem do campo acabado de chegar à cidade. À medida que os encontros se sucedem de forma perturbante – reais ou imaginários, os sinais são todos maus – os dois amigos mergulham cada vez mais em fantasias obsessivas em torno do mesmo objecto de desejo. E quanto mais mergulham, mais a sua amizade, que antes parecia inabalável, começa a desmoronar-se sob a pressão da competição pelo novo miúdo do bairro. (Alambique Filmes)
(mais)Críticas (4)
Em termos da capacidade do diretor de transmitir momentos emocionais na química interpessoal, é literalmente um filme excecional. Especialmente quando o cineasta tem uns impressionantes 21 anos e interpreta o personagem principal ao mesmo tempo. Um «filme do festival» muito agradável.
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He is 21 years old and has written and made and played in a film about love. The initial smirks about what such a young man might know about film and serious topics turn into a complete fascination. Heartbeats is a sparkling affair, whether with its pop art visuals or well-listened-to dialogues. The generational testimony of contemporary forms of love runs in a modern rhythm, makes irony out of itself and works with thoughtful and catchy language of colors and musical motifs. A challenging yet extremely open film that, unlike pseudo-shocking testimony about modern debauchery, goes all the way to the bone. Without any controversy and youthful efforts to stir things up. For a man who's from a different generation, the film affected me admirably.
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Once again Dolan uses a huge range of audiovisual masks in order to simulate the depth that the characters lack. He takes refuge in spatial orientation, shoots three-quarters of the frame in handheld closeups, slips into a music video several times, and tries feverishly to sell the subjective perception of destructive lovemaking. Except that he has nothing but poorly written, affected, inanimate vessels for love with no integrity. For me to be able to understand loss of self due to painful infatuation, there first has to be a self to lose. But the characters here don't exist outside of their scenes.
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It may be a bit sad, but I will remember this film not for how it deals with love and its various forms, but for the music that played during the film, which I very much enjoyed. I was enthralled by it and was carried away at times just by its tones and words. I was thrilled with the film in this respect. Not so much otherwise.
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