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Tom at the Farm

Tom at the Farm (2014)

April. 16,2014
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6.9
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A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.

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Kirandeep Yoder
2014/04/16

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

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Janis
2014/04/17

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

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Haven Kaycee
2014/04/18

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

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Justina
2014/04/19

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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saraccan
2014/04/20

This was probably my least favorite Xavier Dolan movie so far. The story never really had any meaningful direction. I never became interested in what was happening to the main character. It's about a guy visiting his recently dead boyfriend's mother and weird brother in their farm.

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Movie Critic
2014/04/21

I don't care for dystopic gay movies nor violence nor s&m so am sort of in a bind on how to rate this horror movie. Obviously it deserves about a 7 for the refreshing and fun camera angles and close ups... However the story turns the images into things that you try and forget mostly...Sorry sadism is not my bag a depressing couple hours. This is all a pity as Dolan (director main actor Tom) is clearly very intelligent. This is a director capable of a 9 rated movie (I grade tough)The director stuck in a couple queeny parts that didn't fit...the tango scene in the barn. He needs to control that. Another negative is after the funeral the thing moves too slowly... Bisexual characters are usually an anthema for gays...and the plot reveals that the dead lover was bisexual and a cheater...yes I will stick with the 1 rating. Not a gay friendly movie except the hero escapes.Again the camera angles and close ups were fun...in this entirely local scene(Quebec) filmed movie. Some of the "helicopter views of a car" were probably digital wizardry but the rest was completely authentic.I don't like movies where there is any possibility they may have killed an animal for the film. There were a couple scenes in this thing of dead looking cows...however I have to believe that Canada would not allow this.If I had been Tom the first facial slap from the Francis would have had me out of there fast. But the story is believable. Was it entertaining? Not really was glad when it was over.Overall this director is clearly talented and has what it takes to turn out interesting movies...is he a genius?...some of the camera stuff really impressed me. I hope he latches onto better stories.Oh one final comment... was the anti-American slap at the very end needed? We are a large potential audience. He has Francis take off his coat and wear a levi-jacket with an American flag and USA on it as he closes in for the kill. Numerous closeups of this. Although not fatal it helps nothing: Je parle français j'habite en Colorado et j'adore les Québécois.DO NOT RECOMMEND this movie but Dolan has great potential.. Will look for other films he has done.

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l_rawjalaurence
2014/04/22

Set in a lonely farm in Quebec, TOM A LA FERME concerns the inner life of the eponymous central character (Xavier Dolan) mourning the death of his lover. He goes to his lover's family's isolated farm for the funeral, and there encounters the mother (Lise Roy) and her other son (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), neither of whom were aware of the dead lover's sexuality.The film concentrates on the gradual discovery by the family of their dead son's secret, and how it affects them. Francis is both horrified yet strangely affected; as the action unfolds, he develops an unnatural affection for Tom that is both sadistic and sexual. The mother seems to be unaware of what's happening around her, but perhaps she is just deliberately blinding herself to the truth as a means of self-protection. Tom finds himself imprisoned at the farm; even when his close acquaintance Sarah (Evelyne Brochu) comes to visit, he cannot contrive an effective escape.TOM A LA FERME concentrates on the ways in which people conceal their private inclinations, even from their nearest and dearest, and the damage that actually causes them. This is especially true of Francis, who emerges from the film as a seriously disturbed character, masking his sexual inadequacies beneath a veil of strength. Yet the process of self-discovery for all the characters is an enabling one - so much so that when Tom finally escapes from the farm, he does not appear very happy to have done so. The film ends with a shot of him re-entering the city of Montreal, the lighted skyscrapers flashing by outside his car windows, with his face set in an expressionless gaze as he drives. It seems that 'freedom' for him is nothing more than a form of imprisonment; by extension, therefore, his imprisonment at the farm was an opportunity to discover some form of freedom.Filmed on a series of bleak winter days in stark, washed-out colors, TOM A LA FERME is a searing psychological examination of sexualities and how they are often willfully concealed.

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Sil
2014/04/23

I really fail to see the brilliance of the movie or of Xavier Dolan. Admittedly, it is the first movie of him I watched, and I will Watch others to try to understand why everybody think he is a Genius.On the story. Parents not aware of their child's sexuality and relatives trying to hide the truth. Really not original or special. It isn't enough to make a good film, perhaps a short. Other than that it's very slow, and there is little to feed on, be it images or music. And full of clichés such as the violent and rough farmer. It is also not clear why he feels the need to disfigure the brother's friend in a bar, nor why he wasn't jailed for it or nobody questioned him about it, neither brother nor parents nor police. Or was it fine for his brother to have someone disfigured for him in a bar?What strikes about Dolan is this movie, apart from the horrible hair color, is how he seems to like filling the screen most of the time. I hadn't a stopwatch, but it feels like he is filling the screen, mostly his head, 50-70 % of the time or more. Are we supposed to be ecstatic about the acting?All in all, this is a movie, that in my opinion, one can afford not to watch.Let's just say that nothing strikes as interesting or remarkable, from the story to the photography to the original soundtrack. Acting is OK.

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