Tom at the Farm
Tom at the Farm French Tom la ferme is a 2013 psychological thriller directed by Xavier Dolan. The film is based on the play of the same name by Michel Marc Bouchard. It was screened in the main competition section at the 70th Venice International Film Festival onSeptember 2013, and also at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival in the Special Presentation section. At Venice the film won the FIPRESCI Prize. The film was a shortlisted nominee for Best Picture at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards.
After completing his 2012 feature film Laurence Anyways, Dolan felt that a change of direction was needed since, in his own words, the previous three movies dealt with the subject of impossible love. Having seen a production of the play a year earlier, he contacted Bouchard about adapting it for the screen. He was fascinated by the plays violence and brutality and felt it could be explored further on screen. Dolan also liked the role of the mother in the play, since mothers and sons, .. exhausted mothers is always appealing to him.Initially Dolan had the idea to not use music in the film. He thought that silence and sounds of howling wind and creaking floorboards would increase the tension. This idea was scrapped during the editing process, and he asked the Academy Awardwinning composer Gabriel Yared to create the score for the film. ........
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