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Heartbeats

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Synopsis

Acclaimed young filmmaker Xavier Dolan's sexy and stylish Heartbeats is a comic exploration of a romantically obsessed menage-a-trois.

Part farce, part exploration of the complexity of love and desire, Heartbeats centers on two close friends, Francis (writer/director Dolan) and Marie (Monia Chokri), who find themselves fighting for the affections of the same striking young man (Neils Schneider). All bets are off as they attempt to out-maneuver one another to win his heart. However, the more intimate the trio becomes, the more unattainable the object of their infatuation seems - sending the friends' obsession into overdrive.

A heartfelt and tender, breathtakingly stylish must-see, Heartbeats presents hipster sexual politics filtered through a smart French New Wave influence.

"Xavier Dolan, a 21-year-old wunderkind actor-filmmaker whose first film, I Killer My Mother, won Cannes awards in 2009, is back with another madly stylish, Montreal-made delight, happily under the influence of Godard, Audrey Hepburn, and Wong Kar-wai."
- Lisa Schwartzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

"Xavier Dolan is the new darling of Canadian cinema, and it‘s easy to see why."
- Rex Reed, New York Observer

"The new movie confirms Mr. Dolan as a wildly talented, carelessly extravagant filmmaker."
- Stephen Holden, New York Times

3 Reasons To buy this film

Heartbeats was a major hit at the Cannes Film Festival - winning the Youth Prize. It was also an official selection of the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.
Young director Xavier Dolan is a favorite of the critics and top film festivals. Heartbeats is his second feature - we're still awaiting the DVD release of his first, highly-acclaimed film I Killed My Mother.
Blending multiple tones, this movie is funny, stylish, sexy, romantic, and features a very attractive young cast - especially object of affection Niels Schneider.

Product Format Information

DVD : $21.99

Availability: In stock and ready to ship
Region Code: 1
UPC: 030306932996

Studio : IFC Films

Languages: French (Primary) , English Subtitles
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen, 1.85

Keywords

Bisexual/Pansexual, Converting Straight Men, Drama, Gay Male, Gay/Lesbian, GLBT Creator / Performer / Writer, Homosexuality, International, Love Triangle, Ménage à trois/Threesome, Nudity, Romance, Sexuality: Gay Male

Genres

Drama, International, Romance

Customer Reviews

Love, Canadian Style

Amos Lassen wrote on 05/03/2011:

Xavier Dolan, the 21 year director of “Heartbeats”, gives us a very bold movie about young love. Marie (Monia Chokri) is best friends with gay Francis (Xavier Dolan) and she has a crush on Nicolas (Niels Schneider) who is exceptionally good looking. It turns out that Francis also has a crush on Nicolas and they both go after to him while hiding their intentions from each other but letting Nicolas know how they feel. The mystery is Nicolas—which does he prefer? He is not about to say and we get no clue to his sexuality. Interestingly enough, friendship turned into rivalry and both Marie and Francis sabotage themselves because they care too much for someone who does seem to want the attention.
Dolan is very clever with his camerawork. When two of the three are busy with each other, the camera focuses on the third—the one not included. There is even a time when Nicolas smirks as he is being fought over. Dolan also concentrates on the gaze each has and his characters are defined by outward appearance. We soon realize that what is important to the three characters is outward appearance and everything else is minor. Marie and Francis are both searching for perfect love and in the process they try to create perfect personas. Marie depends upon clothing and make-up and spends time in intellectual efforts. Francis has fallen for Nicolas because of his exceptional good looks.
So is this movie about love and rejection or is it about something else? I do not think that love is the theme of this movie at all. The characters think they feel love but it is so superficial and just sensuous but it is not love. The characters have no real depth to them and that is how we are supposed to perceive them. They try to impress each other superficially and each of them is stuck within himself. These characters are not capable of feeling love and they are very shallow and live within their own vanity.
Some may find the silly and pretentious and it is but it is also a mirror of young love. The story is simple as is the way it is related to us. What the story loses in not being complex, it makes up for with the stylistic way we meet the characters. Of course you are wondering what happens in the end and I am not about to say. I will say that personally I totally enjoyed “Heartbeats”.