By Quebecois filmmaker Xavier Dolan raised some eyebrows last year when he revealed he was retiring from directing at 34, an age when most are just getting started at it.
The “Mommy,” “I Killed My Mother” and “Laurence Anyways” helmer last directed 2019’s “Matthias & Maxime” and said in 2023 he was out as “dedicating oneself to the cinema [is] a waste of time”.
Cut to this year and recently he headed the jury of this year’s Un Certain Regard sidebar at Cannes. Speaking with ION Cinema (via World of Reel), he says doing that has reinvigorated him.
As a result, he’s resurrected project he wrote before the pandemic and is 20 pages away from finalizing the screenplay – saying he’s “pleased with its development”.
That project, his ninth feature film, will be a horror tale set in 1880s France. Filming aims to begin in that country in Fall next year with a Cannes 2026 premiere possible.
The closest Dolan has done to horror was the 2013 psychological thriller “Tom at the Farm” which won the FIPRESCI Prize at Venice and scored very good critical reviews.
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