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It would have been a lovely family dinner. If it weren't the last.
Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.
It's Only the End of the World
2016 ‘Juste la fin du monde’ Directed by Xavier Dolan
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Det er bare verdens undergang, 단지 세상의 끝, No es mas que el fin del mundo, Solo el fin del mundo, Es sólo el fin del mundo, Es solo el fin del mundo, É Apenas o Fim do Mundo, たかがせかいのおわり
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i really can't complain too much about a movie that has lea seydoux dancing to the numa numa song in dolphin shorts
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me, giving you a tour of my house that resides up xavier dolan's ass: hi mtv welcome to my crib
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Less of a journey/more compact Dolan but just as compelling as the rest of his filmography; a powerful investigation of familial dysfunction and the inability to communicate in the face of stressful or foreign situations. With that being said, I'm honestly surprised that this family didn't start chopping up and cannabilizing one another. MVP: Vincent Cassel.
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have no use for straight people's critiques of dolan's "hollow aesthetics" his images are so fuelled by pain, repression and trauma that every miraculous swirl feels like an attempt to pass off your trauma as something beautiful, to create beauty on the outside to hide the pain away. this is a film about such trauma, just like every film of his really, although this is different, this is a film not about showing the painful personal details but leaving them unsaid, leaving the actions themselves unknown, deep within the past but keeping that resentment and pain with you. it's about broken people, all who are damaged in their own ways, all connected by their blood and by their distress, they…
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Congrats to Xavier Dolan, who at 27 has already reached the "let's look back fondly on his older work" stage of his career.
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How Xavier Dolan wrote the dialogue:
Mom: hi
Sister: *breathes
Anyone: *breathes
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A heads up for you: critical distance is going to be an issue here. As soon as the credits rolled on Xavier Dolan's (controversial) Cannes Grand Prix winning It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) the world came crashing down. I had to bolt from the cinema. I left friends in their seats. I wrapped myself in music. I walked streets of Sydney using shaking limbs to re-erect walls to hold the flooding tears at bay.
Dolan's film, his sixth and his second working from a play, this time that of French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce, is an emotionally demanding work. A torrid swell of emotions that draws in, drags under and smothers. It is a…
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never thought i’d be crying over the numa numa song but here we are ....... xavier dolan take the aux and make me a playlist for my life please !
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a xavier dolan movie with marion cotillard AND lea seydoux??? excuse me but where has this movie been all my life??
anyways, yeah. xavier dolan does family dysfunction like no other. the moment where Grimes' song Genesis dissolved into the scene and haunted it from then on is one im going to remember forever. that last shot too...
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1. idgaf i loved this.
2. I wanted to smack Vincent Cassel during the whole movie.
3. Xavier Dolan king of adding iconic songs to his filmés when you least expect it.
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