It’s taut, creepy, compelling and sexy. And, apart from the location, it’s very much a Dolan film, focused on people testing the limits of their love for each other – and themselves.
Tom at the Farm(Tom à la ferme)
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France, Canada · 2013
1h 45m
Director Xavier Dolan
Starring Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy, Evelyne Brochu
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.
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If Tom at the Farm is occasionally impenetrable as a drama, it’s seldom less than gripping as an exercise in suspense, especially when Dolan’s precise sense of timing revitalizes otherwise familiar moments.
The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney
Less time spent fetishizing his own image and more on building credible character dynamics and psychological complexity might have helped make this film the dramatic equal of its technical craftsmanship.
It’s an improbably exciting match of knife-edge storytelling and a florid vintage aesthetic best represented by Gabriel Yared’s glorious orchestral score.
It’s wildly melodramatic, typified by the ear-assaulting score. But there’s something compelling about Dolan’s supreme self-confidence, even when misplaced. He takes risks – and that’s attractive.
Slant Magazine by Matt Brennan
Its allegory for internalized homophobia, a gay man's perilous attraction to straightness itself, seems in this case deeply persona.
The Playlist by Oliver Lyttelton
It's certainly his best film.
Don’t miss Tom at the Farm, the latest controversy in the oeuvre of acclaimed French-Canadian actor-writer-director Xavier Dolan, who has been labeled the “enfant terrible of queer cinema.”
The Telegraph by Robbie Collin
[Dolan's] raised his craft, and made by far his best film yet.
There’s intrigue, danger, fear and hope all clinging to Tom as he visits the farm.
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