An emotional tale of destructive love, Heartbeats is the acclaimed second film by Québécois auteur Xavier Dolan (Laurence Anyways). Following the success of his multiple award-winning debut J’ai Tué Ma Mère (I Killed My Mother), Heartbeats careers poetically through the craziness of unleashed passion: expectations, sorrow, humiliation and, finally, loneliness are all shown through a stylish and unflinching eye. A poignant and affecting film, Dolan pulls no punches and deservedly won the Regard Jeunes Prize at Cannes, as well as further awards and nominations for the film itself, its direction, cinematography, editing and performances. Francis (Xavier Dolan) and Marie (Monia Chokri) are close friends. One day, during a lunch, they meet Nicolas (Niels Schneider), a young man from the country newly arrived in town. As one rendezvous leads troublingly to another, whether real or imagined the signs are all bad. Each of the two friends slides deeper into obsessive fantasies around the same object of desire, and the deeper they slide, the more their once cast-iron friendship begins to crack under the pressure of competing for the new kid on the block.