It's Only the End of the World

Film - 2016

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It's Only the End of the World it's a movie with Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye, Marion Cotillard, Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux Full cast. Directed by Xavier Dolan. Original title Juste la fin du monde, runtime 97 minutes. Genre Drama.

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Emiliano Baglio

It's only the end of the worldLouis returns to his family after twelve years of absence to tell them that he is about to die. Louis (Gaspard Ulliel) is in the taxi taking him home and looks out the window while, in alternating editing, his mother Martine (Nathalie Baye) is busy preparing lunch. Tiny fragments of lives flow outside the window, stories barely hinted at by rapid brushstrokes that immediately capture you and about which you would like to know everything while the images fit together with the music that accompanies them in a magical and perfect fusion. This use of music will often return in Xavier Dolan's latest masterpiece, often to seal the climax of the various confrontations between Louis and his family. It might seem like an easy way to capture the audience's belly, with perfect little video clips, but instead these moments are so many windows that Dolan suddenly opens to give air to his chamber drama, included in a few rooms and which grows in animalistic intensity and restrained violence among deluges of stuttered, confused and often banal words in which silences, faces, details and looks count more than what is said. At the same time this sequence is the key to understanding Louis who will appear distant throughout the film from what happens around him, lost in his thoughts as if there was always that glass separating him between reality and him and he was just a spectator. This extraneousness is further underlined by the following scene, the one in which Louis arrives home and which shows the back of her sister Suzanne (Léa Seydoux) in the foreground while her brother remains out of focus, a use, that of out of focus, which is another of the characteristics that characterize the film. From here on it will be a deluge of words , often pronounced, Read all

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Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.