Anne Dorval was born in Noranda, Quebec on November 8th, 1960. Since appearing in her first professional theatre role in 1985, she has acted in and won awards for numerous theatre productions, films, ...

Awards season is tailor-made for disappointment, but you can add Anne Dorval to the list of actresses who clearly did not get the praise they were due. The 54-year-old French Canadian collaborated ...

“Mommy” is an explosive French Canadian film about a mother-son relationship. It deals with mother’s struggle with an uncontrollable, mentally ill teenager, but the characters are so specific that it ...

The first half of Montreal-born Xavier Dolan’s “Mommy” feels like a modern classic, driven by galvanizing performances from Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clement and Antoine Olivier Pilon. The second half ...

The artist shows us the world and demands that we face its injustices and explore our own role in perpetuating them. The brat, meanwhile, sulks in his room and grumbles, “The world sucks, man.” Writer ...

Mr. Dolan, a prodigy of French Canadian cinema, has already directed five films, even though he is only 25. His semiautobiographical debut feature dealt with furious conflict between a young ...

Russian drama “Leviathan” was named best foreign language film at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Saturday. Audience awards went to “Selma” for narrative feature and “Keep On Keepin’ ...

Canadian director Xavier Dolan flourishes every technique you can name in “Mommy.” It’s shot in a 1:1 square aspect ratio that abruptly expands with the characters’ emotions. There’s a framing device, ...

4 stars %28out of 5%29 Dorval%2C Clement and Pilon are all outstanding in difficult roles. Dolan shoots in a square frame%2C making it seem as if the walls are closing in on the characters. "Mommy" is ...

PARIS– Philippe de Chauveron, whose comedy “Serial (Bad) Weddings” was a box office mega-hit, will team up with French film studio SND on “Pleeeeeze,” another high-concept, culture-clash laffer ...