It’s Only the End of the World

Juste la fin du monde (original)

6.8

/10

1h 39mDrama LGBTQ

Prodigious auteur Xavier Dolan (Mommy) comes of age with his dazzling sixth film, based on the play of the same name by Jean-Luc Lagarce and featuring an all-star cast of top French actors. After 12 years of estrangement, a writer (Gaspard Ulliel) returns to his hometown, planning on announcing his impending death to his family. However, his mother (Nathalie Baye), tempestuous siblings (Vincent Cassel and Léa Seydoux) and beleaguered sister-in-law (Marion Cotillard) have their own personal grievances to air. As buried resentments threaten to surface and fits and feuds begin to unfold, all attempts at empathy are sabotaged by the family’s inability to listen and love. Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, It’s Only the End of the World is a bold and stylistically daring melodrama performed with thunderous emotion. Taut, tense and packed with explosive performances shot in claustrophobic close-up, it further confirms Dolan as one of the most singular talents in world cinema.

Spoken language: fr

Starring Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Antoine Desrochers, William Boyce Blanchette, Sasha Samar, Arthur Couillard, Patricia Tulasne

Watch "It’s Only the End of the World" from streaming services Amazon Prime, Apple TV+ (itunes) released in 2016. It's a drama and lgbtq movie, and has a rating of 6.8 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.