Solo

Solo (2023)

Emerging Montreal drag queen Simon must deal with two impossible loves: a passionate, yet destructive affair with Olivier and a cold relationship with his mother, who's just returned after fifteen years.

Date of release
2023-09-15
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Sophie Dupuis

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film

Solo is a 2023 Canadian romantic drama film, written and directed by Sophie Dupuis. The film stars Théodore Pellerin as Simon, a young emerging drag queen in Montreal who is drawn into a passionate but complicated romance with Olivier, while simultaneously navigating a reunion with his estranged mother Claire, whom he has not seen since she left Canada 15 years earlier to pursue her career as an opera singer.

Production

The film entered production in 2022, under the working title Drag. Dupuis has acknowledged the risk that the film may be controversial in the contemporary political climate around the legitimacy of drag, but has described the film as a "gesture of activism" in defense of the art form.

Dupuis has described her directorial process as one in which she does not present a finished script at the outset, but instead works extensively with her actors to "rehearse a lot and bring new ideas, propose, deconstruct something, maybe brainstorm with me, and we rewrite" before arriving at the final script.

Pellerin noted in an interview on the CBC Gem talk show Here & Queer that after production concluded on Family First (Chien de garde), Dupuis asked him if there were any particular roles he would be interested in playing in the future, and he said a drag queen.

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