HEARTBEATS
aka LES AMOURS IMAGINAIRES

Year: 2010
USA: IFC Films
UK: Network Releasing
Cast: Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider, Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval, Anne-elisabeth Bosse, Magalie Lepine-Blondeau, Olivier Morin, eric Bruneau, Gabriel Lessard, Benedicte Decary, Patricia Tulasne
Director: Xavier Dolan
Country: Canada
Language: French (English subtitles)
USA & UK: 100 mins
USA Rated: Unrated
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language and moderate sex
USA Release Date: 25 February 2011 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 27 May 2011 (Limited Release)


Synopsis

"Heartbreaker, that's you."

Francis (Xavier Dolan) and Marie (Monia Chokri) are close friends. One day, they meet Nicolas (Niels Schneider), a young man from the country new in town. As one rendezvous leads troublingly to another, whether real or imagined, the signs are all bad.

Each of the two friends slides deeper into obsessive fantasies around the same object of desire. And the deeper they slide, the more their once solid friendship begins to crack under the pressure of competing for the new kid on the block.

Xavier Dolan's second film, HEARTBEATS, is a study of the fall into love. It starts with a meeting and ends in tears. The film explores the whole gamut of poetic craziness: passions unleashed, expectations, sorrow, humiliation and, finally, loneliness.