Dolan's LAURENCE ANYWAYS Coming to Blu-Ray & DVD, 10/1

Breaking Glass Pictures will release Xavier Dolan's Laurence Anyways on home video this fall. The American presentation, from executive producer Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk), will be available nationwide on October 1st on high-definition Blu-Ray (SRP $29.99) and DVD (SRP $24.99). Laurence Anyways was hailed byThe New York Times as "an astonishing achievement" during its theatrical run this summer, while Entertainment Weekly called the film "essential viewing."

Laurence (Melvil Poupaud), a French teacher and soon-to-be-published author, enjoys an intense and mutually loving relationship with his fiancée, Frédérique (Suzanne Clément). But on The Day after his 35th birthday, Laurence confesses to Fred that he longs to become a woman, asking her to support his transformation. The film follows the course of the couple's on-again, off-again relationship throughout the 1990s.

The film took home the Best Canadian Feature Film Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, as well as the Award of the Youth and the Golden Swann at the Cabourg Romantic Film Festival. In addition to winning Best Actress honors in the Un Certain Regard category at Cannes,the film won two Canadian Screen Awards for Best Costume Design and Achievement in Makeup and received eight other Canadian Screen Award nominations including a nomination for Suzanne Clément for Best Actressand a nomination for Melvil Poupaud for Best Actor. The film was also nominated for a French César for Best Foreign Feature.

Indiewire called Laurence Anyways "breathtaking," echoed in sentiments by The LA Times who raved it as "extraordinary" and Variety as "astonishing". Both versions of the release will include deleted scenes from the film, and the Blu-Ray will exclusively include "MoMA Film Dept Presents: An Evening with Xavier Dolan", footage from the filmmaker's retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art shot earlier this year.

Like Dolan's previous films (I Killed My Mother, Heartbeats), which were hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "madly stylish" and New York Timesas "a gush of gorgeous images and music," Laurence Anyways boasts striking visuals and a rich soundtrack including Duran Duran, The Cure, Celine Dion, Kim Carnes and Fever Ray.

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