It's Only the End of the World

It's Only the End of the World
Film poster
FrenchJuste la fin du monde
Directed byXavier Dolan
Written byXavier Dolan
Based onJuste la fin du monde
by Jean-Luc Lagarce
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyAndré Turpin
Edited byXavier Dolan
Music byGabriel Yared
Production
companies
  • Sons of Manual
  • MK2 Productions
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 19 May 2016 (2016-05-19) (Cannes)
  • 21 September 2016 (2016-09-21) (Quebec & France)
Running time
99 minutes[1]
Countries
  • Canada
  • France
LanguageFrench
Budget
  • €6.9 million[2]
    (US$7.4 million)
Box office$9.2 million[3]

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 of the same name 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.

  1. ^ "It's Only the End of the World". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  2. ^ "Juste La Fin Du Monde". JP's Box-Office. Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  3. ^ "It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 16 February 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023.