I love Xavier Dolan. He’s a (nearly) twenty-two-year-old gay Quebecois auteur, and I’m…none of those things. But he’s always my go-to guy whenever some fellow film geek wants to discuss up-and-coming directors.  Dolan’s got the wunderkind cred, as his first two films showed at Cannes, his first in 2009.  Both Josh and I enjoyed his audacious semi-autobiographical debut I Killed My Mother at SIFF last year.  I think that’s the better of his two releases, but it only ended up doing the film festival circuit, as an American distribution deal was set, but nothing ever came of it.  It ain’t even on Netflix, yo!

But now you’ve got your chance to get a dose of Dolan. His second film Heartbeats–though the directly-translated title Imaginary Lovers is much more on the nose–is running at the Northwest Film Forum twice nightly (7 p.m., 9:15 p.m.) tonight through next Thursday. Here’s what I had to say, upon seeing the film at last fall’s Toronto International Film Festival: Continue reading At the Northwest Film Forum, Xavier Dolan Showcases the Heartbeats of Cinema →