Xavier Dolan is at it again.

The Quebec filmmaker captured his second straight award at a Cannes Film Festival Saturday night, taking home the Regards Jeunes prize for his Les amours imaginaires (Heartbeats).

Dolan wrote, directed, coproduced (with Carole Mondello and Daniel Morin) and stars in Les amours – a feat reflective of what he achieved with his previous festival darling, J’ai tué ma mere.

Interviewed by Playback before the film was entered at Cannes, Dolan said Les amours ‘is really a movie about the deterioration of friendship and the humiliation we impose on ourselves when we blindly and desperately fall in love with ambiguous people. It is a chaptered film actually, on the various steps of the love downfall.’

Dolan insisted ‘it’s not really a triangle because the object of desire is not part of the story, as he would be if it were some kind of a Jules et Jim,’ referring to François Truffaut’s classic. ‘It’s a love duel between two friends who become infatuated with the same person and actually jeopardize their friendship.’

The 21-year-old filmmaker’s latest award-winner is being distributed by Remstar in Canada, and through France’s Rezo Films in the rest of the world.