Xavier Dolan‘s latest film, Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme), premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year and while it has yet to land a domestic distributor, it will be hitting Quebec theaters in March. Today a new trailer for the film arrives along with a poster that’s been floating around since last December.
As I wrote in September 2013, Tom at the Farm is something of a departure from Dolan’s first three features — I Killed My Mother, Heartbeats and Laurence Anyways. It’s a psychological thriller based on Michel Marc Bouchard‘s play of the same name, in which Dolan plays the title character, a young ad agency employee who takes a trip out to the country to attend a funeral only to learn the mother (Lise Roy) of the deceased doesn’t know who he is or his relationship to her dead son, Guillame. However, her other son, Francis (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), seems fully aware of who he is and sets about tormenting Tom, physically and mentally.
This new trailer uses virtually no dialogue and certainly sells the more horrific elements of the film, but there is no easy way to describe the feature, which I didn’t love as much as Dolan’s previous work, but it’s still a worthy watch nonetheless.
Dolan is already working on his latest film, Mommy, which he began his second block of shooting back in January. Centering on the story of a mother who takes custody of a child with a dark past, the film reunites Dolan with Laurence Anyways star Suzanne Clement, Anne Dorval (whose been in all of Dolan’s films but Tom at the Farm) and Antoine-Olivier Pilon.
Check out the trailer and Canadian poster for Tom at the Farm below and you can read my full review of the film right here.
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