At 34, Xavier Dolan wants to continue. Disappointed with the results of his recent artistic projects, the director reiterated his intention to end his film career in an interview with the newspaper El País.
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It’s not the first time Xavier Dolan has questioned his future in cinema. As early as last November, he mentioned on the journal’s pages that he was seriously considering a break. The idea seems to have arisen since then.
“I renounce cinema and directing,” he told the Spanish media in an interview published in recent days.
The enormous pressure – human and financial – that accompanies the realization of Xavier Dolan’s projects is at the heart of his decision. Especially since the results are not there.
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“I no longer have the desire or the strength to get involved in a project for two years and hardly see anyone. “I put too much passion into it to experience so much disappointment,” he says. In the end I wonder if my cinema isn’t bad, but I know it isn’t.
His latest series, The Night Laurier Gaudreault Woke Up, which aired at Club illico, had critical success but received no awards and was only broadcast in three other countries (France, Japan and Spain).
“I didn’t win anything with the series. I invested my salary in the production and my father had to lend me money. “It’s a very thankless process, I’m tired and discouraged,” he drops.
In the cinema, the disappointment is also great for Xavier Dolan. After achieving rapid success at the Cannes Film Festival with his films Mommy and The End of the World, his more recent projects My Life With John F. Donovan and Matthias and Maxime have achieved far greater success. mixed.
So what’s next for Xavier Dolan?
“The simplest solution is to advertise and build me a house in the country,” he says in his interview.