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Mommy
Why this pick
Dolan’s equally heightened, intimate melodrama turns volatile family love into something visually bold, funny, painful and unexpectedly liberating.
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MOVIE2012 2h 48m CAN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A Canadian couple's relationship is changed forever when Frédérique reveals to her long-term boyfriend Laurence, that she wants to restart her life as a woman.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Yves Jacques
Michel Lafortune
Monique Spaziani
Francine
Xavier Dolan
Man at the Party
Violette Chauveau
Élise Voïlinsky
Melvil Poupaud
Laurence Alia
Nathalie Baye
Julienne Alia
Susan Almgren
Journalist
Sophie Faucher
Andrée Bellair