Xavier Dolan Confirms His Return to Filmmaking With New Film Mixing Horror and ‘Comic Elements’
variety.comLise Pedersen Just over a year after announcing he was retiring from filmmaking, Xavier Dolan has confirmed he is working on a new feature project, which he hopes to shoot next year.
The Québécois director was speaking at a masterclass at the Lumiere Film Festival, a fest organized by Cannes chief Thierry Fremaux, in Lyon.
Dolan will be hosting a special 10th anniversary screening of his Cannes Jury Prize winner “Mommy” at Lyon’s 2,000-seat auditorium.
He says the script is written and is hoping to shoot it next year. Dolan explained the film won’t be quite a horror movie but there are “certainly horrific aspects or moments,” as well as a “lot of comic elements” in the writing. “It’s going to be an amalgam of several genres.” He also revealed the story “takes place in 1895 in the world of the elite, the Parisian literary world and in the countryside too.” Often dubbed the Québécois wonder kid, Dolan directed eight feature films in a decade.
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