Laurence Anyways Special Screening

There’s something fitting about Laurence Anyways screening in Bangkok during Pride Month – not just because it won the Queer Palm at Cannes, but because it refuses to be polite about love, gender or heartbreak. Directed by then-23-year-old Xavier Dolan, the film spans a decade in the life of Laurence, a literature teacher who begins to transition while still deeply entangled with his partner, Fred. It’s not tidy. It’s not easy. But it’s painfully, beautifully human. Melvil Poupaud and Suzanne Clément don’t so much act as unravel onscreen – raw, ridiculous, furious, magnificent. This isn’t a film about tolerance. It’s about the elasticity of intimacy and what happens when people grow in opposite directions, together. Nearly three hours long and soaked in neon melancholy, it dares to be excessive – like any real love story. Until Jun 22. B160 via here. House Cinema, 4.35pm