This masterpiece is celebrating its 10th anniversary and the photobook is entirely dedicated to it

This is one of those films that changes the trajectory of both the director and the audience. Xavier Dolan’s mother is one of them. Therefore, naturally, the tenth anniversary of the speech should be properly celebrated. For this occasion, the Quebec filmmaker presents photographs, Friendship on film. A way to stop time and relive the experiences that founded your career.

Co-published by mk2 Publishing and Sons of Manual, this 480-page book features Shane Laverdiere, the director’s dedicated photographer for some time, especially during the filming of Mommy and its presentation at Cannes – where the film was received. Jury prize in 2014.

Hundreds of artistic photographs make up the pages of this book. Each of them shows the complicity, concentration and madness that surrounded the making of the film. The photos are true to the story’s chronology, and some are accompanied by unpublished filming anecdotes.

If the first part focuses on the set of the mother, the second follows the team – Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clement, Antoine-Olivier Pilon and Xavier Dolan – in the big moments of the Cannes Film Festival: interviews, climbing the stairs, the official screening, waiting for reactions, joy, anxiety or even preparing for the speech – become iconic.

Four prefaces introduce the book. Two of them are signed by the general delegate of the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Fremaux, and Jane Campion, president of the jury, who presented the prize to Xavier Dolan. The filmmaker recounts in detail his memories of the screening and explains how and why the film captured the collective imagination.

Released in October 2014, Mommy attracted no fewer than 1,194,684 viewers in French cinemas. A feat that is no small feat for a Quebec film with French subtitles. with this feature film, Xavier Dolan He was able to create a link between auteur and popular cinema, establishing himself as an important artistic figure in the minds of an entire generation.

That enthusiasm is palpable at recent signing sessions, which have brought together hundreds of young moviegoers who grew up watching the director’s films — over and over again. mother It was sold in different cinemas. Ten years later, the enthusiasm and excitement is still there.

Go to buy the book mk2 website.

Xavier Dolan’s Mommy will hit theaters in November on a 35mm print.