Réalisation: Xavier Dolan
Distribution: Kit Harrington, Jessica Chastain, ...
Genre: Drame
Origine: Canada
Sortie: 2015
Synopsis: La secrète relation entre une star hollywoodienne et un garçon britannique, alors que la rédactrice en chef d'un tabloïd tente de détruire la vie de l'acteur.
Premier film en langue anglaise de Dolan après le succès critique et public de Mommy, avec une jolie tête d'affiche. Le synopsis promet déjà quelque chose d'assez différent des précédents films de Dolan, ce qui n'est pas plus mal s'il veut éviter la redite.
Dolan décrit le film :
"Well it is a sort of reflection on Hollywood's impact in the modern artist's life, the actor's life, the people from the industry. It's a sort of take on how it affects privacy. But it's not a satire. It's more of a drama with a structured story of two different lives intertwined: the story of a very, very famous, new 'it' boy — but not only 'it' because we're talking iconic, we're talking new legend," he explained. "This guy called John F. Donovan is beloved by his peers, admired, adulated, adored by the public, by the fans and approved by the industry and by the journalists. He's a sort of immediate myth but he's been having this secretive correspondence with a very young man, an 11-year-old actor-to-be in the UK and they have never told anyone about it, and the film is the story of a sort of an Icarus flight, if I can call it that, when the existence of the letters is revealed to the public and people make the most sordid assumptions, and how this man's career, and life, completely collapse."
