Heartbeats

Heartbeats (Les amours imaginaires, 2010) is a Canadian drama-romance you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Xavier Dolan at the age of twenty. Francis and Marie are best friends until a beautiful young man named Nicolas walks into a Montreal café and quietly unravels everything between them. Both fall hard; neither admits it; Nicolas gives nothing away.

Dolan shoots the whole affair like a dream — slow-motion reveries, direct-to-camera confessions, a soundtrack that leans on Dalida and Brett Anderson. The film is less about a love triangle and more about the kind of yearning you can sustain for months without a single honest conversation. Thin on plot, but precise about the specific ache of wanting someone who may never want you back. Stream Heartbeats (2010) on iFILM.