Canadian ghost director Xavier Dolan won three awards at the Cannes Film Festival with his self-written, directed and acted “I Killed My Mother/J’ai tué ma mère” at the age of 19. The film festival favors him, but he has a promising future, but recently he dropped a shock bomb without warning in an interview with the Spanish media “El Pais”, announcing that he will retire from film production, which shocked fans.
According to the content of the interview, Xavier Dolan admitted that he was tired and had no desire and motivation to continue, and the biggest reason seemed to be the disappointment of the industry and the audience, saying: “I don’t want to spend two years on a project that almost no one sees. Because I poured too much enthusiasm into it, and now I am so disappointed, it makes me constantly wonder if my ability is bad, but I know it is not.”
“I want to spend time with my family and friends, I want to shoot commercials, save money to build a house, I don’t feel sad, because I just want to live another way, try a different life.”
Due to the widespread concern after the news was exposed, Xavier Dolan also clarified the context behind the decision through Instagram earlier, and also emphasized that he did not say “art is meaningless”; as far as the current understanding is concerned, Xavier Dolan should still be I will continue to create, but I will no longer enter the film genre, and may switch to commercial MVs or film and television dramas. Interested readers may wish to pay more attention.
