Xavier Dolan wrote the script when he was 16 years old. He said in an interview with French-Canadian newspaper 'Le Soleil' that the movie was in part an autobiography.
After being shown at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, the movie received an eight-minute standing ovation.
The man who shows the apartment to Hubert and Antonin is played by Xavier Dolan's father, Manuel Tadros.
Canada's official submission to 82nd Academy Award's Foreign Language in 2010.
Shown in only 12 theaters in Quebec and 60 in France.