It's Only the End of the World (2016)

Original title

Juste la fin du monde

Directed by

Xavier Dolan

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

France, Canada

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 1,664 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young playwright returns to his family home after 12 years away. He plans to tell them that he is dying, but the reunion stirs up old tensions and unspoken resentments.

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What happens

It's Only the End of the World (French: Juste la fin du monde) is a 2016 drama film written, directed and edited by Xavier Dolan. The film is based on the 1990 play by Jean-Luc Lagarce and stars Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, and Vincent Cassel. It is about a young playwright who reunites with his family after a 12-year absence to inform them he is going to die. A co-production of Canada and France, it was shot in Montreal and Laval, Quebec, beginning in 2015. The small core of actors were selected against typecasting, with Ulliel and Cotillard challenged by the awkwardness in dialogue inherent in Lagarce's work. The film made its world premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or and received mixed reactions from critics. The film won the Cannes Grand Prix - making Dolan the second Canadian director to receive this award, and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at Cannes. It also won six Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Motion Picture, and three César Awards: Best Director, Best Actor and Best Editing. It's Only the End of the World was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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