It's Only the End of the World

Name: It's Only the End of the World
Genre: Drama
Released: June 30, 2017
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 48
Cast: Antoine Desrochers, Arthur Couillard, Emile Rondeau, Gaspard Ulliel, Léa Seydoux

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Entertainment One | Release Date (Streaming): June 30, 2017 | Not Rated

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

Summary: After a 12 year absence, a writer (Gaspard Ulliel) returns to his hometown, planning on announcing his upcoming death to his family. As resentment soon rewrites the course of the afternoon, fits and feuds unfold, fueled by loneliness and doubt, while all attempts of empathy are sabotaged by people's incapacity to listen and love.

Director: Xavier Dolan

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

May 20, 2016

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, stylised and hallucinatory evocation of family dysfunction. Read full review

The Telegraph Tim Robey

May 20, 2016

The experience is frequently infuriating, but it’s quite clearly supposed to be – it’s about hell being the other people in your own family. Read full review

Charles Gant

May 20, 2016

The film’s dialogue has ample tang of real family discourse, but it often fails to rivet. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

May 20, 2016

[Dolan's] crafted the semblance of a substantial movie that never quite gets where it was supposed to go. Read full review

Peter Debruge

May 20, 2016

Here, in cinema’s most unpleasant genre (the dysfunctional family gathering), Dolan has found a way to exasperate and exhaust his audience, but he has also achieved a completely unexpected catharsis at the end of an agonizing hour and a half. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

May 20, 2016

Having recruited as fine a cast of French-speaking thesps as has ever been assembled, and marshalled a strong behind-the-camera team, Dolan’s usually exuberant egotism is here taken so seriously that what we’re left with is a shrieking bore, without a single character worth rooting for, least of all the puddle of maudlin self-pity at its center. Read full review

John Bleasdale

May 20, 2016

The material is weak, overly familiar and cliché-ridden. Dolan throws the cinematic sink at it but his latest feels like a shorter, not particularly watchable sequel to August, Osage County. Read full review

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DawdlingPoet

Nov 25, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is very much a drama, a family drama which is heavily dialogue based and depicts a somewhat nasty and perhaps intolerant, certainly selfish, father figure and numerous others. It is understandably sombre and thought provoking at times. Its a little slow moving in terms of the plot but I thought its a relatively decent depiction of a clearly dysfunctional family. Its worth seeing but it may not appeal to all, unless your keen on films with characters talking at length, challenging one another - family confrontations and lots of shouting/swearing. I can't say its a film I'm likely to think of much in the future as such but its certainly not bad. I found the final scenes somewhat moving but I'm keeping my rating as it is as overall I'd say its not an especially gripping or overly memorable film. Perhaps it was a bit too bleak for me, even though I do tend to like dark dramas.… Expand

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WhiskeyStories

Dec 1, 2017

As most critics said, the source material is mostly at fault here. The plot is just completely unfocused, the editing is at times bizarre and most characters are just walking clichés. The strongest point of the film is the acting, especially Vincent Cassel and Marion Cotillard, they gaveAs most critics said, the source material is mostly at fault here. The plot is just completely unfocused, the editing is at times bizarre and most characters are just walking clichés. The strongest point of the film is the acting, especially Vincent Cassel and Marion Cotillard, they gave fantastic performances and completely elevate the film overall. It's a worthwhile watch for the acting talent involved, but I don't think I would recommend it.… Expand

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