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The Treatment

Xavier Dolan: Mommy

French-Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan talks about his fifth film, Mommy. Contains explicit language.

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By Elvis Mitchell • Jan 23, 2015 • 23m Listen

Mommy

is

Xavier Dolan's fifth film, about a recent widow (Anne Dorval) who is struggling to raise her teenager (Antoine-Olivier Pilon) who is unpredictable and sometimes violent.

Mommy was Canada's official submission for Best Foreign Language film at the Academy Awards. This conversation was produced as part of the

Film Independent at LACMA

screening series.

Contains explicit language.

Photo by Shayne Laverdiere, courtesy of Film Independent

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    Elvis Mitchell

    host of KCRW’s The Treatment

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    Jenny Radelet

    former producer, KCRW's Independent Producer Project

    Culture
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