Blu-ray Review – Laurence Anyways

There's a stunning lack of trust running through "Laurence Anyways," and
it cripples what should be a searing portrait of self-worth.
Writer/director Xavier Dolan doesn't lead the feature through its
dramatic entanglements, he pushes it, spending the nearly three-hour run
time slapping symbolism and overwrought stylistics on the viewer,
eschewing subtlety to beat simple emotional concepts into the ground,
unaware that the audience doesn't need much to grasp the primal scream
burning within the lead character. "Laurence Anyways" is a beautiful
expression of a challenging life mummified by a filmmaker who could
learn a thing or two about the editing process, demanding an eternity to
articulate universal needs. For every sublime moment the movie has to
offer, there's a cinematic dead zone of indulgence that wipes it away,
generating a frustrating, occasionally intolerable sit. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com