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Laurence Anyways

2012

Xavier Dolan

Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye, Monia Chokri ...

7.4

4,841

Drama. Romance Tells the story of impossible love between a man and a woman after the man decided to have a sex change. Laurence Alia (Melvil Poupaud) is an English professor with a steady job and a solid relationship with girlfriend Fred (Suzanne Clement). Life seems settled until the day when he tells his nearest and dearest his plans to switch genders.

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"Even if the story grates in places, 'Laurence Anyways' is perfectly enjoyable as an immersive orgy of pure sensory pleasure"	POS
United States	Rob Nelson Variety	"The clearest achievement of Dolan’s typically self-indulgent eye-popper comes in equating its gender-bending protagonist’s metamorphoses with those in any relationship that lasts for years"	POS
United Kingdom	David Hughes Empire	"It's hard to imagine that the prodigiously gifted Dolan is still in his early twenties. This is another work of marvellous maturity and assurance. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It goes on for ever without getting properly started: an epic of depthless self-indulgence (...) Rating: ★ (out of five)"	NEG
Canada	Peter Howell Toronto Star	"The story just doesn't have the heft that its 161-minute running time implies. It's about an hour longer than the story requires, even for one that spans decades (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEG

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