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While his work is certainly appreciated in Canada and elsewhere around the world, it seems to be taking the United States a little more to time to recognize the films of Xavier Dolan. His latest, Cannes-winning film Mommy was the first of his features to get decent distribution (earlier this year), and now, finally, his 2013 drama Tom at the Farm will get a U.S. release this August thanks to Amplify.

Adapted from Michel Marc Bouchard‘s play, it finds the helmer in psychological thriller territory, tracking a young ad executive who heads to a funeral, only to realize no one there knows of his relationship with his now-dead lover. I had the chance to see it last year at a MoMA screening and found it to be a deep plunge into a nightmare of fear, equally impressive for how intense, funny and unsettling it can be all at once. We now have a U.S. trailer (via Apple) and poster which can be seen below for the film starring Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy, and Evelyne Brochu.

After the sudden death of his lover, Guillaume, Tom (Xavier Dolan – Mommy, Heartbeats, I Killed My Mother), travels from his home in the city to a remote country farm for the funeral. Upon arriving, he’s shocked to find that Guillaume’s family knows nothing about him and was expecting a woman in his place. Torn between his own grief and that of the family, Tom keeps his identity a secret but soon finds himself increasingly drawn into a twisted, sexually-charged game by Guillaume’s aggressive brother (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), who suspects the truth. Stockholm syndrome, deception, grief, and savagery pervade this psychological thriller from filmmaker Xavier Dolan.

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Tom at the Farm hits theaters and iTunes on August 14th.

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