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A reworking of Louis Malle’s New Wave classic The Fire Within, Joachim Trier’s Cannes hit about a young man’s fade-out is a triumph of sensitive insight and observation, a smart, sharp portrait that even finds within its heavy subject matter the chance for warmth.

Xavier Dolan’s sparkling drama features the beloved director before the camera in a touching role. Dolan co-stars in this tender, heartfelt story of a friendship between men from different classes that is challenged by the possibility of separation—and attraction.