電影神童哈維爾多蘭 Art film prodigy
Everyone is talking about Adele’s highly-anticipated comeback single Hello. But much of the chatter is not even about the singer herself, or the song she created. Xavier Dolan, the maverick music video director, is stealing the spotlight.
幾乎所有的人都在談論阿黛爾那首被寄予厚望的最新單曲《你好》。不過也有些人壓根不關心歌手和她的歌，他們更關注的是《你好》MV的導演——特立獨行的哈維爾多蘭。
The Quebecois filmmaker had just turned 20 when he presented his first directorial effort, I Killed My Mother, at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. He also wrote and starred in the film, which is a semi-autobiographical psychodrama about a young homosexual at odds with his mother. Dolan’s debut won three awards from the Director’s Fortnight program at Cannes and received an eight-minute standing ovation as well.
多蘭是來自加拿大魁北克的電影製作人。2009年，剛滿20歲的他就在戛納電影節上展播了自己自編自導自演的作品《我殺了我媽媽》。這部半自傳式的心理片講述了一個年輕的同性戀男孩和母親之間的微妙的關係。初出茅廬的多蘭獲得了當年戛納電影節“導演雙週”單元的三項大獎，並獲得了觀衆長達8分鐘的起立鼓掌。
Hubert, the main character from I Killed My Mother, shouts in a pivotal scene, “Stop comparing me to kids my age! I’m not like them!” This could be said of Dolan himself.
在《我殺了我媽媽》的一個關鍵場景裏，主人公于貝爾聲嘶力竭地喊道：“不要把我和同齡人比！我和他們不一樣！”這句話也可能是多蘭爲自己的吶喊。
He lives his life in a free way. He identifies himself as gay. He grew up acting. He has even appeared on a number of Canadian TV shows since age 4. Eight-year-old Dolan once wrote a letter to US actor Leonardo DiCaprio to express his admiration and to relay his wish to act together with him.
他的生活自由無拘。他定義自己是同性戀。他從小從事表演，四歲起就成了加拿大電視節目的常客。他8歲時曾給美國演員萊昂納多迪卡普里奧寫信，述說自己對小李子的崇拜，並期待同他一起拍戲。
Dolan’s love of acting then pushed him toward a career in directing. “At 14, there were no auditions. Nobody was employing me, so I became my own employer... I missed acting. When I wrote I Killed My Mother, it was obvious to me that no one else could play this role. And I’m not questioning people’s talent. I’m just thinking no one else can play this role since it’s my life,” Dolan told AskMen, in an interview about how he switched from acting to directing.
多蘭對錶演的熱愛最終促成了他的導演生涯。“我14歲時，沒有試鏡，沒有人僱傭我，於是我成了自己的老闆……我懷念演戲。當我創作《我殺了我媽媽》時，我很清楚沒人能演繹這個角色。我並非質疑別人的才華。我只是認爲沒人能演出我的人生，”多蘭在接受美國男性門戶網站AskMen的採訪時，回答爲何從表演轉到導演時說。
He directs with an unconventional style. When he was directing the drama Heartbeats, he had no clear vision for the film’s final look. “It’s kind of impulsive and unconscious sometimes. The vision is not that precise. It’s in my mind, and we do things, and it just happens that it resembles what I had in mind,” he said to Interview Magazine.
他的導演風格天馬行空。在導演《心跳》時，他對電影最終應該呈現的樣子並無清晰的預見。“這有時是一種衝動和潛意識。設想並不準確。它就在我腦海裏，我們按此行動，它自然就和我想象中一樣了，”他告訴《訪談》雜誌。
His latest feature, Mommy, demonstrated Dolan’s mastery behind the lens. The film is about a widowed mother and her violent son, and it won the Jury Prize at Cannes last year. Dolan uses a square 1:1 format which no one has tried before, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
最新作品《媽咪》展示了多蘭嫺熟的鏡頭運用技能。影片講述了寡婦母親和有暴力傾向的兒子之間的故事。該片獲得了去年戛納電影評審團大獎。影片中多蘭使用了1:1的比例構圖，《好萊塢報道者》評價這是個前無古人的創舉。
Despite his meteoric start in the business, his continually high-caliber output proved that he’s not a shooting star. At the age of 26, he already has five critically acclaimed feature films under his belt.
儘管他的事業飛速起步，他卻持續產出高質量的作品，證明自己並非轉瞬即逝的流星。年僅26歲，他已經有5部口碑極高的作品了。
Being perceived as a genius auteur can became a huge pressure for artists. But it doesn’t bother Dolan. “It’s a part of my job to learn to deal with reviews. Wunderkind isn’t derogatory, unless you’re 40 and described as ‘once a wunderkind’,” Dolan said to Slant Magazine.
對於藝術家來說，頂着天才導演的名號壓力不小。不過多蘭可沒受影響。“學會應對別人的評論也是我的工作之一。神童並不是貶稱，除非你40歲的時候被人說成是‘曾經的神童’”，多蘭告訴《觀點》雜誌。
Looking forward, Dolan unsurprisingly has no clear plan. He told Billboard, “I don’t really have an agenda. I don’t really have goals.”
對於未來，多蘭沒有任何計劃，這一點也不意外。他對《公告牌》雜誌說：“我沒有正兒八經的日程安排。我連目標都沒有。”
Inside this prodigy lives an untrammeled soul. That may just be the source of his creative works.
天才的外表下住着一個不羈的靈魂。也許這就是他創造力的源泉。
