A literature teacher reveals her true self as a woman, testing love, family and identity in Xavier Dolan’s sweeping romantic drama.
LAURENCE ANYWAYS follows Laurence, a literature teacher who, after years of hiding her true identity, begins living as a woman. Her transition reshapes every relationship around her, especially with Frédérique, the great love of her life. Bold, emotional and visually extravagant, Xavier Dolan’s film is a decade-spanning portrait of identity, desire and the cost of being seen.
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LAURENCE ANYWAYS is Xavier Dolan at his most operatic: lush, defiant and emotionally overwhelming. At its heart is a love story stretched across identity, time and social judgement, where acceptance is never simple and desire refuses to behave neatly. Grand in style and intimate in feeling, it is a passionate ode to becoming yourself, whatever the cost.
