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Hidden feelings come to light and threaten the bond of a group of friends in their late 20s.Hidden feelings come to light and threaten the bond of a group of friends in their late 20s.Hidden feelings come to light and threaten the bond of a group of friends in their late 20s.
- Awards
- 12 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the opening title card, the film is dedicated to "Eliza, Francis, Joel and Luca". This refers to Eliza Hittman, Francis Lee, Joel Edgerton and Luca Guadagnino, who directed Beach Rats (2017), God's Own Country (2017), Boy Erased (2018) and Call Me by Your Name (2017), which are all gay coming-of-age films.
- GoofsAt Tante Ginette's place, we can see her, not holding her glasses, then from the back holding them from her left hand, then from the front again holding them from her right hand.
- ConnectionsReferences Dragon Ball Z (1989)
- SoundtracksMardi Gras
Written by Alfred Opier
Performed by The Jeggpap New Orleans Band
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Not a bad film, just a very obvious one.
Xavier Dolan, one-time enfant terrible of French-Canadian cinema, hasn't so much mellowed as become conventional. If the plot of his latest film, "Matthias & Maxime" is a little off-the-wall, the treatment is alarmingly predictable. Two male friends agree to take part in a girlfriend's student film in a scene where they have to kiss or indeed 'make out'. Dolan, for some reason, cuts away from the kiss itself and builds his film around the impact their actions has on their lives and their friendship.
It's beautifully filmed and well acted by both Dolan and Gabriel D'Almeida Freitas in the title roles as well as by a handful of people you would hardly want to spend time with normally and therein lies the rub; there's no-one to empathize with and nothing happens to make us care very much about Matthias & Maxime and their hang-ups. I'm not disputing Dolan's very obvious talent and it's still hard to believe he's only thirty-one, (he made his first feature aged only twenty), but these male-orientated and family-orientated psychodramas are starting to get a little dull. This might first look like he's branching out but there's nothing here we haven't seen before.
It's beautifully filmed and well acted by both Dolan and Gabriel D'Almeida Freitas in the title roles as well as by a handful of people you would hardly want to spend time with normally and therein lies the rub; there's no-one to empathize with and nothing happens to make us care very much about Matthias & Maxime and their hang-ups. I'm not disputing Dolan's very obvious talent and it's still hard to believe he's only thirty-one, (he made his first feature aged only twenty), but these male-orientated and family-orientated psychodramas are starting to get a little dull. This might first look like he's branching out but there's nothing here we haven't seen before.
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- MOscarbradley
- Oct 9, 2020
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- Also known as
- Matthias and Maxime
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $374,739
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $64,988
- Oct 13, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $1,866,680
- Runtime1 hour 59 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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