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'I KILLED MY MOTHER' REFLECTS EVOLUTN OF GAY-THEMED FILMS
— the film's distributor is mired a nearly $90 ln lawsu for d — which mak the screeng a rare opportuny to see the film on the big French wh English subtl, the film centers on a gay teenager played by Dolan. This is a pot worth psg over for a moment, bee "I Killed My Mother" is one of a new breed of g-of-age films, featurg young gay protagonists, that are not, strictly speakg, narrowly foced "g out" films. " Gays and lbians are g out at a younger age, he said, and as a generatn they don't want movi "that pretend that sexualy don't add more piec to the puzzle, but they also don't want to be the only piece — the piece around which everythg else revolv.
"I was expectg a film really orbg around sexualy and gay kid problems a lot more exclively than do, " Davis said. His send feature "Heartbeats"(released by IFC last year) foced on a gay-straight love triangle, and his latt, "Lrence Anyways" (which he jt submted to Cann) tells the story of a man who reveals at age 30 that he is transgenred and wants to live as a woman.
Dolan is a self-proclaimed gay actor, director, wrer and stume signer. If you stumble upon IMDB while sually lookg for this film, the synopsis you will fd hardly do jtice to this work of art: “A semi-tobgraphil story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds wh his mother. ” Although Hubert’s homosexualy nstut a mor part of the rift between mother and son, the film do not blame his sexual orientatn.