To say that the reception at the Cannes Film Festival for Xavier Dolan‘s latest film, “It’s Only The End Of The World,” was rocky would be an understatement. But the filmmaker had the last laugh when the picture walked away with the Jury Prize and Ecumenical Jury Prize, giving Dolan the last word on those who didn’t roll with his flick. Now the first trailer has arrived to give those of us not lucky enough to be on the Croisette our biggest look at the movie yet.
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Starring Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, Nathalie Baye, and Gaspard Ulliel, and inspired by the play by Jean-Luc Lagarce, the film follows a writer who returns to see his family after a twelve-year absence with some heavy news to share. Here’s the official synopsis:
After 12 years of absence, a writer goes back to his hometown, planning on annoucing his upcoming death to his family. As resentment soon rewrites the course of the afternoon, fits and feuds unfold, fuelled by loneliness and doubt, while all attempts of empathy are sabotaged by people’s incapacity to listen and love.
“It’s Only The End Of The World” opens on September 21st in Quebec. There is no U.S. distribution for the film just yet, but you can probably get it’ll screen at TIFF and other festivals this fall.