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In film, the love triangle is pretty common, from John Hughes to Godard and Truffaut, but there's something different going on here. What is it?

XD : It's not a tribute to Jules and Jim. My movie isn't a love triangle; it's a love duel. There's a dead angle in the film. I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema. Nico is an image: He's absolutely banal and uninteresting and uncharismatic, no depth. That was voluntary. We're obsessed with images of love and not with individuals most of the time. For me, he's like a painting, a sculpture. And when the characters are looking at him and they see images of Cocteau drawings or Michelangelo's David, what I want to say is that they're really infatuated with their perception of love and the idea of loving someone so attractive, but they know nothing about this guy.

-Xavier Dolan
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