Laurence Anyways (2012)

	Melvil Poupaud	Laurence Alia
	Suzanne Clément	Fred Belair
	Nathalie Baye	Julienne Alia
	Monia Chokri	Stéfanie Belair
	Susan Almgren	La journaliste
	Yves Jacques	Michel Lafortune
	Sophie Faucher	Andrée Belair
	Magalie Lépine Blondeau	Charlotte
	Catherine Bégin	Mamy Rose
	Emmanuel Schwartz	Baby Rose
	Jacques Lavallée	Dada Rose
	Perrette Souplex	Tatie Rose
	Patricia Tulasne	Shookie Rose
	David Savard	Albert
	Monique Spaziani	Francine

Director

Xavier Dolan

Producer

Xavier Dolan

Writer/Composer

Xavier Dolan

Music

Noia

Set in the 1980s and 1990s, a man tries to salvage his relationship with his fiancée after revealing to her his aspirations of becoming a woman. This is the story of a wild and unusual love. It charts ten years in the relationship of a male-to-female transsexual's relationship with her lover.

Edition Details
No. of Discs/Tapes	1

Personal Details
Purchase Date	11/28/2017
Location	Personal Library
Owner	Frameline Voices
Store	Amazon.com
Purchase Price	$15.21
Condition	New
Tags	transgender
Links	+ Review: Slant (Chuck Bowen) + Review: QueerGuru (Roger Walker-Dack) ± Review: Roger Ebert (Olivia Collette) ± Review: Big Gay Picture Show (Tim Isaac) Laurence Anyways at Core for Movies IMDB TheMovieDb.org Rotten Tomatoes

References
Streaming, VoD	Amazon Prime
Lists	‡ Rotten Tomatoes: 200 Best LGBT Movies of All Time
QueerGuru Rating	9
Rotten Critics Rating % (2021)	84
Rotten Best Queer #1-200 (2021)	129

While perhaps too long, the cinematography is excellent, and the acting very good. The captions are often lengthy, and I found that they were on the screen for too short of a time to fully read.