Xavier Dolan's It's Only the End of the World explores imperfect family relations
Dolan's sixth film hits theatres after festival circuit accolades
Xavier Dolan's latest film, It's Only the End of the World, is hitting Canadian cinemas after having defied the critics to capture a top prize at Cannes.
At the French film fest, the 27-year-old Quebec wunderkind earned negative reviews for his sixth film, a tale of a terminally ill writer( Gaspard Ulliel) who travels home to share the news with his estranged family.
Known in French as Juste la fin du monde, the drama is based on a play of the same name by the late French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce and features a star-studded cast of French actors, including Léa Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, Nathalie Baye and Marion Cotillard.
The film nonetheless captured the prestigious Grand Prix in Cannes, as well as a prize from the festival's Ecumenical Jury. It's Only the End of the World also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month and was tapped as Canada's official foreign-language Oscar pick.
In the video above, co-stars Baye and Seydoux discuss working with Dolan, who explains why he favours stories about imperfect people and dysfunctional families.
It's Only the End of the World, which opened at cinemas in Quebec and France this week, hits Toronto theatres Friday, with a wider Canadian release to come.
