1. Matthias & Maxime movie review (2020) | Roger Ebert
Aug 28, 2020 · “Matthias & Maxime” is unabashedly about “the boys,” and how they deal (or don't deal) with the stuff swirling around in their relationships.
Much of Matthias & Maxime is pedestrian to the extreme, and there is a general lack of character development across the board, but the way Dolan chooses to frame things, the visual choices he makes, the way he revels unashamed in the big-ness of the emotions, makes it an entertaining ride.
2. Matthias & Maxime review – Xavier Dolan's tale of unspoken love
Aug 30, 2020 · The writer-director's poignant drama of love and longing reveals his considerable powers as an actor.
The writer-director’s poignant drama of love and longing reveals his considerable powers as an actor
3. Matthias & Maxime: Exploring the Shock of Small Changes - F(r)iction
The film follows two twenty-something male friends as they navigate the disruption caused by a kiss on the eve of a departure. While queer themes are ...
Spoilers Ahead! Xavier Dolan’s 2019 film Matthias & Maxime presents as an exploratory queer story. The film follows two twenty-something male friends as they navigate the disruption caused by a...
4. Matthias & Maxime | Rotten Tomatoes
Synopsis Two young men's lifelong friendship is tested when they act in a movie whose script calls for them to kiss each other. Director: Xavier Dolan. Producer ...
Two young men's lifelong friendship is tested when they act in a movie whose script calls for them to kiss each other.
5. Matthias & Maxime review: Xavier Dolan reflects on growing up, glibly
Aug 28, 2020 · The movie's crisis is set in motion by a zoomer interloper in the party, the younger sister of one of the core group, who is shooting a project ...
The one-time designated wunderkind holds fast to cliché in this drama of two ageing millennial bros panicked by the prospect of a filmed kiss.
6. Matthias & Maxime review – Xavier Dolan is back to his best
Aug 27, 2020 · Xavier Dolan returns to his Québécois roots with this lilting reflection on lost youth and unspoken love.
Xavier Dolan returns to his Québécois roots with this lilting reflection on lost youth and unspoken love.
7. Matthias & Maxime - FILM REVIEW
Matthias is a lawyer who can expect promotion but is not certain that he has truly found the path in life that he wants although he does have a girlfriend, ...
Two men find themselves at a crossroads, a last chance to alter the direction of their lives.
8. Matthias & Maxime - CinePhil
Matthias and Maxime are young French Canadian men, who we first see preparing to go to a party. As they're getting ready, they warn each other that their ...
Matthias and Maxime are young French Canadian men, who we first see preparing to go to a party. As they’re getting ready, they warn each other that their mate’s sister will be there, who is apparen…
9. Film Review: 'Matthias & Maxime' - Variety
May 22, 2019 · For “Matthias & Maxime” is not in any sense the work of an enfant terrible: A wistful, low-key love-and-friendship study, and something of a ...
It feels at once younger and older, sweeter and more seasoned, than Dolan's last few films.
10. 'Matthias & Maxime': Film Review | Cannes 2019
May 22, 2019 · Max and Matt end up being the lucky duo. Dolan suggests their bro-ish intimacy (one pees while the other brushes his teeth beside him, etc.), ...
In 'Matthias & Maxime,' the latest from Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan, two childhood buddies are forced to confront their feelings for each other after they kiss for a friend's short film.
11. The Genius of Matthias & Maxime - Sarkhan - Medium
Dec 7, 2021 · The song talks about how love disfigured the person into something they don't recognize, which many queer people in the closet could relate to ...
A modern masterpiece that juggles between tragedy and comedy, finally resulting in one of the most complex pieces of our generation. In its…
12. 'Matthias & Maxime' By Xavier Dolan Review: The Kiss That Changed ...
Aug 28, 2020 · The melodrama is here mellowed down to leave room to explore the inner turmoil of his main characters. This is why the kiss is never shown. It ...
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13. 'Matthias & Maxime' Review: An All-Surface Study of Friendship
Aug 23, 2020 · Review: Matthias & Maxime Finds Xavier Dolan in a Swooning Holding Pattern. Dolan's characters are of such broad definition that it's impossible ...
Dolan’s characters are of such broad definition that it’s impossible to regard them as anything other than aesthetic objects.
14. Matthias & Maxime Reviews - Metacritic
Devastatingly beautiful and poignant, the film is stylistically diverse, well-paced, well-acted, and feels heart-achingly honest. Xavier impresses once more for ...
Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.
15. Matthias & Maxime review – Xavier Dolan's heartfelt tale of male longing
May 23, 2019 · Matthias and Maxime's new secret affects their friends' hive-mind without anyone quite acknowledging or grasping it, resulting in a monumentally ...
Two friends’ playful kiss rekindles suppressed feelings in a film swept along by rattling dialogue and simmering tensions
16. MATTHIAS & MAXIME: A Review by Sofia Migaly - Chicago Filmmakers
Jun 29, 2023 · After losing a bet, Matthias (Gabriel D'Almeida Freitas) and his lifelong friend Maxime (Xavier Dolan), who is preparing to move abroad, must ...
New Chicago Filmmakers INSIGHT review published by Marketing Intern [Sofia Migaly]. MATTHIAS & MAXIME is presented by MUBI and screened at [Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema] in celebration of [Pride Month] and the Reeling Pride Month Film Showcase. Showcasing the best in [Queer Cinema], [Reel
17. Cannes 2019 review: Matthias & Maxime (Xavier Dolan)
May 22, 2019 · Matthias & Maxime, Québécois director Xavier Dolan's eighth feature film, sees him dialing back the romantic hyperbole of his earlier features ...
There comes a time in a filmmaker’s career when he may feel that he needs to try to stretch himself creatively: perhaps he has already mastered a specific
18. LFF 2019 Film Review: Matthias & Maxime - The Queer Review
Oct 8, 2019 · There is a moment in Xavier Dolan's Matthias & Maxime, when Pier-Luc Funk's character Rivette (a close friend of the film's lead duo) is ...
There is a moment in Xavier Dolan’s Matthias & Maxime, when Pier-Luc Funk’s character Rivette (a close friend of the film’s lead duo) is playing the piano for his mother and her friends at her …
19. Matthias & Maxime Review | Movie - Empire
Aug 26, 2020 · Matthias & Maxime marks an evolution in his preoccupation with passion. His two lead men struggle to process desire and confusion, yet these ...
Xavier Dolan returns with his eighth feature film as director. Read the Empire review.
20. Matthias & Maxime | Films - CBC Gem
Jun 12, 2024 · Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, ...
Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle.
21. Watch Matthias & Maxime (2019) on MUBI
Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both of them ...
Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both of them with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.
22. “What Can a Kiss Awaken?” — A Review of Matthias and Maxime
Sep 26, 2024 · A heartfelt review of Xavier Dolan's Matthias and Maxime, a film that explores the tension between friendship and love, and the struggles ...
A tender exploration of identity, love, and the complexities of friendship in Xavier Dolan’s Matthias and Maxime.