news | Thursday May 3, 2012

Laurence Anyways

Xavier Dolan is set to adapt the Michel Marc Bouchard play Tom a la ferme and he’ll be writing the screenplay in collaboration with Bouchard.

Dolan’s Laurence Anyways will have its world premiere later this month in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival and will open in Quebec May 18.

Tom a la ferme made its bow at the Theatre d’Aujourd’hui last year. It is a drama about a guy, Tom, who only gets to know the family of his lover after his death and it turns out that his lover’s mother had no idea of the existence of Tom. The lover’s brother Francis forces Tom to keep quiet about his gay relationship.