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Melvil Poupaud has replaced Louis Garrel in the cross-dresser titular lead role for French Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan's third feature film. Poupaud who was most recently seen in Gilles Marchand's Cannes bomb L'autre monde, joins his Les Sentiments co-star Nathalie Baye as part of constituency of French from France joining the France-Quebec production. Winter filming on Laurence Anyways takes place in Montreal next week up until the 12th of April...

It was a two for two kind of day yesterday. I was there on opening night for I Killed My Mother in the Director's Fortnight section and one year later, almost to the exact date, I'm there again to assist in a true love fest for Xavier Dolan preems Les Amours imaginaires.

Xavier Dolan returns to the lieu that launched his filmmaking career. 12 months to the date after exploding onto the interntional film scene with the triple prize winning portrait of a love/hate relationship between teenage son and mother in I Killed My Mother, Dolan moves "up" a section going from the Director's Fortnight to the Un Certain Regard spot.

Here is your first look at the festival poster for Xavier Dolan's Un Certain Regard selected Les Amours imaginaires (a.k.a Heartbeats) in what I imagine is the first of three. Niels Schneider, the actor is who had a bit part in I Killed My Mother has a more significant role in this three way and is featured in the poster below.

She hadn’t been a bad mother, but like every young adult or old teen, I needed to analyze and dig into my adolescent years to be able to peacefully embark on a new chapter of my life. In three days, I wrote the first draft of “I Killed My Mother”.