The French-Canadian filmmaker discs his reflective new drama, Matthias and Maxime, and explas why he still feels ashamed of puttg gay sex on…
Contents:
- XAVIER DOLAN ON FILM’S GAY DOUBLE STANDARD: ‘WE NEVER TALK ABOUT HETEROSEXUAL FILMS’
- XAVIER DOLAN ON SEX, GAY IENDSHIP AND PARIS HILTON
- IS GAY DIRECTOR XAVIER DOLAN HIDG HIS BOYIEND? HAD A COUPLE-LIKE RELATNSHIP WH ANYONE?
XAVIER DOLAN ON FILM’S GAY DOUBLE STANDARD: ‘WE NEVER TALK ABOUT HETEROSEXUAL FILMS’
The dtry has no problem makg a genre out of gay romanc, and yet you never hear the term "heterosexual romance." * is xavier dolan gay *
Speakg at the “Matthias & Maxime” prs nference, Dolan lled out an dtry double standard which films centered around queer characters are almost always labeled “gay films” or “queer films” while movi about relatnships between men and women are never fed by their sexualy. While “Matthias & Maxime” als wh a gay storyle, Dolan’s ey ’s as much a film and love story as one wh heterosexual characters. “This film is not gay, It’s life, ” Dolan told prs.
’ For me, ’s not a story of homosexualy or gay love. Ultimately, I don’t thk that the two protagonists are aware that is gay love. Five years before homosexualy was ostensibly crimalized Canada, when same-sex sexual activy was still punishable by a multi-year prison sentence, Jane Rule published Dert of the Heart.
XAVIER DOLAN ON SEX, GAY IENDSHIP AND PARIS HILTON
As an adolcent, Tremblay found himself a Québéis a predomantly Anglo untry and a gay teen a largely tolerant society.
Shane had a mandg stage prence and routely donned flamboyant getups and elaborate makp, never seekg to nform — even an era when homosexualy was illegal Canada.
Her 1962 sgle “Any Other Way” beme a top 10 h Toronto, s lyrics rife wh double entendr like “Tell her that I’m happy, tell her that I’m gay, tell her I wouldn’t have any other way. Melancholic and mp, Stimson’s exhibns and performanc wield humour and homoeroticism as tools for pg wh the lonial vlence that his practice is ultimately always nontg.
IS GAY DIRECTOR XAVIER DOLAN HIDG HIS BOYIEND? HAD A COUPLE-LIKE RELATNSHIP WH ANYONE?
Upon watchg his baby boy beg breastfed, Loudon Wawright III penned the tongue--cheek track “Ruf is a T Man” — which assumed an ironic new meang when that boy grew up to be gay.
Wawright has been equally forthg about his homosexualy om the outset of his mil reer, fg his lyrics wh drama, explic queer sire and heartache. Followg the release of his but album, Wawright moved to New York Cy’s Chelsea Hotel to wre his sophomore effort, where he spiralled to a perd plagued by dg addictn. After gettg treatment, Wawright exprsed the belief that he was pecially sceptible to addictn as a gay man: “Years of sexual secury, the low-gra discrimatn you suffer, the need to belong — speed tak re of all that one send, ” he told the New York Tim.