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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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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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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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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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Dolan honestly has a keen eye for showing flashbacks or emphasizing a memory / particular scene. The cast was spectacular but the plot itself was bound to be bland. There were some spectacular music video scenes where the music fights against the gorgeous visuals for the meaning that they both share inevitably, and it's just seamless and beautiful. I loved the cast. I loved it. It was an exquisite sight to see such a wonderful cast together as a dysfunctional family.
The heat wave was evident not only on their sweaty bodies but on their dialogue. What I didn't enjoy was the symbolic end. I know. I know. It was good, but it wasn't great. It left a void and… -
A bit the French-Canadian version of Tracy Letts' August: Osage County, Xavier Dolan lets his fabulous cast go full character dysfunction, and just as well they're as good as they are, because witnessing this constant parade of insecurity, bitterness and mutual self-loathing is a 98 minute endurance event.
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Un putain de chef-d'oeuvre...
Les acteurs sont époustouflants, chacun dans leur rôle, des personnalités fortes, des émotions taillés au couteau, des cadrages parfait, un éclairage toujours adapté à la scène, un putain de huis clos.
Du Xavier Dolan dans toute sa splendeur, strictement rien à reprocher à ce film. -
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I love this movie with all my heart, the photo, the music, the story, everything is amazing for me.
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Being the huge Xavier Dolan stan that I am, I always delayed watching this film because of all the bad reviews it received, and I was scared that I wouldn't like it either and question the talent of god himself, Xavier Dolan... and now, I can safely say that I will never ever forgive myself for questioning something like that.
I do agree that some scenes were longer than they should have been but apart from that I really liked this. So either this film is actually good and you all are being extremely overcritical or I'm just really far up Xavier Dolan's ass...
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I’ve never understand the people who see this film as only screaming between the members of a family.
The bird is he and he is a bird.
I know I would watch this film again and again and I know I won’t get bored of it. -
But for a fairly lackluster lead performance, this film could have been extraordinary. Certainly the rest of the cast is up for the challenge, giving excellent, lived in performances all around. One almost doesn't mind that Lea Seydoux is playing a character about five to ten years younger than her actual age, because she's so great here.
As always, Dolan excels at harnessing the beautiful disaster that is his characters' interpersonal relationships. At times, it might be a bit much, but the way he and his actors capture the complicated and broken dynamic at the heart of this family reunion is truly emotionally devasting.
I truly wonder what this film might have been had Dolan, himself, taken the lead role…
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