Heartbeats: movie review
The Quebecois filmmaker Xavier Dolan not only wrote and directed 鈥�Heartbeats,鈥� but is also its art director, costume designer, editor, and costar. It鈥檚 an omnisexual variation on Fran莽ois Truffaut's 鈥淛ules and Jim,鈥� although stylistically, with its emphases on hipper-than-thou attitudes and moody-blues visuals, it鈥檚 much closer to the early work of Jean-Luc Godard and Wong Kar-Wai.
Two friends, played by Monia Chokri and Dolan, are in love with the same diffident dreamboat, played by Niels Schneider. The triangulations of their desire are amusing but Dolan, as a director, is all attitude. Grade: B- (Unrated.)
