TIFF 2018: Xavier Dolan and Natalie Portman laugh it up

TORONTO — Laughter emanated from the hotel room Xavier Dolan had just entered to join Natalie Portman — not polite chuckles but boisterous guffaws.
Portman co-stars in the Quebec director’s long-awaited English-language debut The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, which has its world première Monday evening at the Toronto International Film Festival.
A soft-spoken woman who chooses her words carefully, Portman does not come across as the guffawing type; but as would be d