Director: Xavier Dolan
French with English subtitles 95 minutes
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Gaspard Ullliel
Following the success of his critically acclaimed and award-winning film Mommy, Xavier Dolan returns with It’s Only the End of the World, a thunderous drama about home and familial roots.
Winner of the Grand Prix in Cannes, Dolan’s latest film is based on the late French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce’s Juste la fin du monde, and demonstrates how his singular voice transcends borders and makes him one of Canada’s most exciting contemporary filmmakers.
Louis (Gaspard Ulliel, Saint Laurent, Paris, je t’aime) is a successful director who, having just received a terminal diagnosis, returns home to his estranged family after a 12-year absence. However, his homecoming is quickly tainted by lingering resentment from his family, who see Louis as both a prodigy and a deserter. His attempts to inform his mother (Nathalie Baye, Lawrence Anyways, Catch Me If You Can), sister (Léa Seydoux, The Lobster, The Grand Budapest Hotel), brother (Vincent Cassel, A Dangerous Method, Eastern Promises), and sister-in-law (Marion Cotillard, Macbeth, Rust and Bone) of his illness are repeatedly stymied by the surfacing tensions between family members.
Stunningly stylized and shot in intimate close-ups, the film’s aesthetic helps convey the director’s intuitive understanding of the characters, their memories, disappointments, and, ultimately, their profound love for each other.
“Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only the End of the World is histrionic and claustrophobic: deliberately oppressive and pretty well pop-eyed in its madness — and yet a brilliant, stylized and hallucinatory evocation of family dysfunction”
—Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
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