It’s Xavier Dolan’s Cannes

Despite mixed reviews for his It’s Only the End of the World, Xavier Dolan is Cannes’ latest enfant terrible and the party Louis Vuitton threw in his honor Thursday night was plenty proof of that. He was surrounded by his good-looking cast and gal pals – Gaspard Ulliel, Lea Seydoux, Marion Cotillard, Vincent Cassel and Nathalie Baye – just as news broke out that his film was picked up by Russian distributor A-One Film. “I’ve never seen someone direct a set like Xavier before,” said Ulliel, who plays the lead, a dying writer. “For an actor it’s very disturbing at first. He intervenes a lot and he’s very present on set. He is precise on each direction – maybe too precise sometimes. He would correct you with the smallest details, saying put your face like that, or like this, raise your eye brow like that.” Twenty-seven-year-old Dolan already had a provocateur’s reputation when he showed Mommy at Cannes in 2014 – his fifth feature film. He took home the Jury Prize that year, but told French Vogue, “I have to say I’m disappointed not to have won the Palme d’Or.” So needless to say, this year he’s as disenchanted with his critics as they are with his film. “If the guy who gives Creed five stars and Fast and the Furious four stars and-a-half is saying that Marion Cotillard is a bore in my movie, then it really is the end of the world,” he told The Guardian. “And you wonder what the f— he’s doing here.”