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sat 19 nov 5:30 pm Caligari FilmBühne
IT’S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD Canada/France 2016 95 min French original version with German subtitles Script: Xavier Dolan, DoP: André Turpin, Editor: Xavier Dolan, Production: Sons of Manual, Téléfilm Canada, MK2 Productions, Producers: Nancy Grant, Xavier Dolan, Sylvain Corbeil, Nathanaël Karmitz, Elisha Karmitz, Michel Merkt, Cast: Gaspard Ulliel, Marion Cotillard, Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux, Nathalie Baye After twelve years of absence, a writer goes back 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, fuelled by loneliness and doubt, while all attempts of empathy are sabotaged by people’s incapacity to listen, and love. "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: a companion piece in some ways to the epic shouting match that was Dolan’s earlier movie, MOMMY.” (The Guardian) Biography: Xavier Dolan was born on March 20, 1989, and worked already as child in film and TV productions. His feature film debut I KILLED MY MOTHER was showered with prizes and |
awards, as well as his following productions. For instance, he won the FIPRESCI Award at the Venice International Film Festival 2013 for TOM AT THE FARM. The all-rounder also works as actor, producer, script writer, cutter, costume designer and dubbing actor. His next film, THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN, will be his first US production.
Filmography (selection): 2009 I KILLED MY MOTHER (ex 23), 2010 HERZENSBRECHER (ex 23), 2012 LAURENCE ANYWAYS, 2013 SAG NICHT, WER DU BIST!, 2014 MOMMY (ex 27), 2016 EINFACH DAS ENDE DER WELT Awards: Grand Prize of the Jury and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Cannes International Film Festival, France 2016) www.facebook.com/EinfachDasEndeDerWelt/ Contact: |
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