Tom at the Farm
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| Directed by | Xavier Dolan |
| Produced by | Xavier Dolan Nathanaël Karmitz Charles Gillibert |
| Screenplay by | Xavier Dolan Michel Marc Bouchard |
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Tom at the Farm by Michel Marc Bouchard |
| Starring | Xavier Dolan Pierre-Yves Cardinal Lise Roy Évelyne Brochu |
| Music by | Gabriel Yared |
| Cinematography | André Turpin |
| Edited by | Xavier Dolan |
| Distributed by | MK2 (international sales) Entertainment One |
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95 minutes |
| Country | Canada France |
| Language | French |
Tom at the Farm (French: Tom à la ferme) is a 2013 psychological thriller directed by and starring Xavier Dolan. The film is based on the play of the same name by Michel Marc Bouchard. It was screened in the main competition section at the 70th Venice International Film Festival on 2 September 2013, and also at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival in the Special Presentation section. At Venice the film won the FIPRESCI Prize.
The film was nominated for Best Picture, among other awards, at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards, but did not win.
Tom, a young advertising copywriter, travels to the country for the funeral of his boyfriend Guillaume. There, he is shocked to learn that no one knows who he is, nor his relationship to the deceased. Guillaume's brother Francis soon sets the rules of a twisted game.
In order to protect the family's name and the deceased's grieving mother, Agathe, Tom now has to play the peacekeeper in a household whose obscure past bodes even greater darkness for his "trip" to the farm.
After completing his 2012 feature film Laurence Anyways, Dolan felt that "a change of direction was needed" since, in his own words, the previous three movies dealt with the subject of impossible love. Having seen a production of the play a year earlier, he contacted Bouchard about adapting it for the screen. He was fascinated by the play's violence and brutality and felt it could be explored further on screen. Dolan also liked the role of the mother in the play, since "mothers and sons, .. exhausted mothers is always appealing" to him.
Initially Dolan had the idea to not use music in the film. He thought that silence and sounds of howling wind and creaking floorboards would increase the tension. This idea was scrapped during the editing process, and he asked the Academy Award-winning composer Gabriel Yared to create the score for the film.
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