Les Amours imaginaires (Heartbeats). 2010. Directed by Xavier Dolan

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Les Amours imaginaires (Heartbeats). 2010. Canada. Directed by Xavier Dolan. In French; English subtitles. 101 min.

Best friends Francis and Marie are inseparable—until they both fall for Nicholas, a handsome newcomer. As the trio spends their days and nights together, the two friends passive-aggressively vie for Nicholas’s attention and analyze his every gesture. Heartbeats establishes Dolan’s visual lexicon, with highly stylized slow-motion scenes and riffs on a generation of classic cool; Marie is a doe-eyed, cigarette-poised Audrey Hepburn, and Francis, who keeps a stick-figure tally of his misfortunes in romance, is a melancholy James Dean. Humorous and heartbreaking, the emotional three-way is a contemporary update on Francois Truffaut's Jules and Jim, with all the neuroses of the 21st century.

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