Tom At The Farm (DVD Review)

Starring: Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy
Director: Xavier Dolan
Running Time: 105 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: April 4th 2014 (Cinema), August 18th 2014 (DVD/Blu-ray)

This is Xavier Dolan’s fourth film as a director, and he’s still only 25. It’s difficult to know whether to be impressed or whether to dislike him on principle. Indeed that’s true of much about Dolan – he has a supreme confidence that is simultaneously exciting and a little exasperating, his grasp of plot and theme is both engrossing and frustratingly underdeveloped, and he manages to imbue his films with a hipster vibe that is too pleased with itself and yet gives his films an unexpected vibrancy.