The incestual in Xavier Dolan’s cinematographic works^*

* Translated by Sophie Leighton.

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Notes

* Translated by Sophie Leighton.

1 Translator's note: all the English quotations from Dolan's films are taken from the subtitled text.

2 The subtle emergence of the incestual in the director's early films should be emphasized and we may well wonder if this does not represent a psychic formation that is approaching elaboration and transformation. This transformation will be realised in my view by a more in-depth work in the course of the film-maker's later creative development, especially in Tom at the Farm and Mommy.

3 http://reneroussillon.wordpress.com/symbolisation/symbolisation-primaire-et-secondaire/