Credits: screenplay: Xavier Dolan; director of photography: Stéphanie Anne Weber Biron; editor: Hélene Girard; music: Nicholas Savard-L'Herbier; sound: Sylvain Brassard; production design: Anette Belley; costume design: Nicole Pelletier; producer: Xavier Dolan; production: Mililifilms;

Country: Canada

Year: 2009

Running time: 96

Colour: Colour and b&w

Format: 35 mm

Hubert Minel doesn't love his mother. The 16-year-old haughtily regards her with contempt, and only sees her tacky sweaters, kitsch decorations and the breadcrumbs that get stuck on the corner of her lips when she munches. In addition to these irritating surface details, there is also his parent's cherished mechanisms of manipulation and guilt. Confused by this love/hate relationship that obsesses him more and more each day, Hubert drifts through the mysteries of an adolescence both marginal and typical - artistic discoveries, illicit experiences, the opening-up to friendship, sex and ostracism.