"Mommy" was made in an unusual, Instagram-like 1:1 aspect ratio - a square-sized frame that Dolan said gave viewers nowhere to focus but on his characters.
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"There might be a proper age to know how to tell stories, but there is no proper age to start telling them," said Dolan. "I'm not thinking of myself as someone young. I feel neither young nor old, I just feel like I'm trying to do the right thing in order to tell a story that haunts me somehow."