Did Xavier Dolan retire from filmmaking?

Canadian filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter Xavier Dolan announced that he intends to retire from cinema and filmmaking on July 2023, in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País.

He told the newspaper that “I no longer have the desire or strength to commit myself to a project for two years that barely anyone sees,” Dolan explained. “I put too much passion into it to have so many disappointments. It makes me wonder if my filmmaking is bad, and I know it’s not.”

Xavier Dolan expressed his dissatisfaction with his series The Night Logan Woke Up, despite investing his own money and taking out loans from his father to pay for it. He regarded it as a thankless task that left him exhausted and disheartened.

He intends to retire entirely, including not directing any more Adele music videos. Prior to the epidemic, however, Dolan vowed to film an English-language series for HBO, which he described as “still in an embryonic state.””I’m going to keep my word and then I’ll quit.”

 Xavier Dolan also discussed his fears of a “civil war caused by intolerance” and went on to say, “I don’t understand what is the point of telling stories when everything around us is falling apart. Art is useless and dedicating oneself to the cinema, a waste of time.”

He concluded, “I want to take time to be with my friends and family. I want to shoot commercials and build myself a house in the country one day when I have enough money saved. I don’t say that in a sad way at all. I just want to live something else, other experiences.”