Just the end of the world (film)

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Movie
German title Just the end of the world
Original title Juste la fin du monde
Country of production France ,
Canada
original language French
Publishing year 2016
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Xavier Dolan
script Xavier Dolan
production Sylvain Corbeil ,
Xavier Dolan,
Nancy Grant ,
Nathanaël Karmitz
music Gabriel Yared
camera André Turpin
cut Xavier Dolan
occupation

Simply the end of the world (Original title: Juste la fin du monde ) is a Canadian - French film by Xavier Dolan , which is based on the play of the same name by Jean-Luc Lagarce from 1990. It premiered on May 19, 2016 at the Cannes International Film Festival , where it was awarded the Grand Jury Prize. The film was released in French cinemas on September 21, 2016. The cinema release in Germany and German-speaking Switzerland took place on December 29, 2016, in French -speaking Switzerland on September 21, 2016.

action

It has been a long time since Louis, now 34 years old, left his family without saying goodbye. From then on Louis had traveled the world and made a career as a writer far from the rural idyll. After the family had not heard from him for years, he announced his visit after twelve years, and his surprise arrival caused great excitement for the family, especially his mother Martine.

Once at his parents' house, the anticipation of his relatives fades, and soon you stop talking about trivialities, and Louis is confronted with allegations that he still knows from before. His sister Suzanne tells him that she only lives at home because he left the family at the time and she never had the heart to do something like that. His brother Antoine, who is ten years older than him, tells him that his long absence has given him his status as mum's darling and only wants to pretend to be the prodigal son who has returned home. When they meet again, Louis sees Catherine, Antoine's wife, for the first time.

Actually, Louis had come back to say goodbye to his family, because he suffers from a terminal illness and knows that he will soon die. However, since his family is far too busy reproaching him and arguing among themselves, he does not get around to delivering this news to them personally and almost does not want to tell them anymore. Louis also notices that he has distanced himself emotionally from his family because of his long absence, and that his relatives are also unable to show real feelings.

Literary template

The film is based on the play Simply the End of the World (original title Juste la fin du monde ) by Jean-Luc Lagarce , published in 1990, which premiered in October 1999 at the Théâtre National de la Colline in Paris and on November 8, 2001 at the Theater Bremen celebrated its German premiere. The drama is published in a German translation by the theater publisher Felix Bloch Erben .

Lagarce, who was born in the Haute-Saône department in France in 1957 , was HIV- positive himself and died on September 30, 1995, two weeks after the completion of his last text Das ferne Land (original title Le pays lointain ) at the age of 38 in Paris of AIDS. Lagarce wrote the drama during a work stay in Berlin and never saw it when it was first staged in 1999. Lagarce is one of the most played authors in France, and Juste la fin du monde was a school reading for many years after Lagarce's death .

production

Staff and cast

The actors at the premiere in Cannes : Gaspard Ulliel , Léa Seydoux , Marion Cotillard , director Xavier Dolan, Vincent Cassel and Nathalie Baye (from left to right)

Xavier Dolan developed the script based on the play and also acted as director and producer of the film. In his cinematic adaptation of Lagarce's piece, the enfant terrible of the family film after I Killed My Mother and Mommy is once again concerned with his favorite subject. It is - after Do not say who you are! (Original title Tom à la ferme ) from 2013, which is based on the play of the same name by Michel Marc Bouchard - about Dolan's second adaptation of a play.

Dolan starred in Louis with the actor Gaspard Ulliel . Louis' mother Martine played Nathalie Baye , his sister Suzanne Léa Seydoux , the role of his brother Antoine Vincent Cassel and that of his wife Catherine Marion Cotillard .

Filming

As a cameraman Dolan was able to engage the two-time Genie Award winner André Turpin , with whom the director last worked on the films Don't Say Who You Are! and Mommy had worked together.

Turpin begins the film with a montage sequence in which Louis' taxi ride and the mania for preparation at home are cut in parallel, thus introducing them to the family. As the film progresses, the camera rarely takes a distance from the characters' faces. The resulting oppressive closeness, according to Tim Caspar Boehme from taz , expresses the failure of communication in the family and shows how much the individuals have diverged from one another. Saturated colors in the film underline the claustrophobia and depression that Dolan wanted to express at this reunion. The criticism here was that Dolan and Turpin were unable to create understandably coherent scenes due to the almost exclusively close-up shots and the mise en scène they created. In addition, the characters' sentences that they began in medias res are often not completed, and this meant that thoughts could not be thought through to the end.

publication

The film premiered on May 19, 2016 at the Cannes Film Festival . It was released in French cinemas on September 21, 2016. The cinema release in Germany took place on December 29, 2016.

During the Cannes Film Festival it was announced that A-One Films had secured the film rights for the Russian cinema market. From September 11, 2016, the film was presented at the Toronto International Film Festival . In Germany, the film is distributed by Weltkino Filmverleih . The film was presented to a German specialist audience for the first time in September 2016 at the Leipzig Film Art Fair; also in September 2016 it was shown at the Hamburg Film Festival . From October 14, 2016, the film was screened at the London Film Festival and in November 2016 at the International Film Festival of India .

reception

Age rating

In Germany the film is FSK 12 . The statement of reasons for the release states: “The film has a consistently oppressive atmosphere , characterized by family conflicts and the theme of dying . Due to their psychosocial level of development, children from the age of 12 are able to understand and deal with these issues and conflicts. At the same time, the story hardly offers any starting point for children aged 12 and over, which leads to an emotional distance from the events. "

Reviews

The film was able to convince 45 percent of the critics at Rotten Tomatoes (of 38 critics in total, as of January 2, 2017).

Xavier Dolan , here at the premiere in Cannes , directed and developed the script for the film

Frédéric Jaeger from critic.de compares Dolan's adaptation of a play with a chamber play in which suspense is the focus of the unsaid, the unknown, the past and the upcoming . However, this is not embedded in a thriller plot, which means that only the excessively increased emotional anticipation in the tense faces remains as a projection surface.

Peter Debruge from Variety also discovers little excitement and says that Dolan only found a way with the film to anger and exhaust the audience, and after an agonizing hour and a half at the end, it achieved a completely unexpected catharsis.

Hannah Pilarczyk from Spiegel Online does not understand in her criticism why the film outraged the critics after its premiere in Cannes. Pilarczyk describes the film as simply great and sums it up: "Even if the subject of the dysfunctional family is nothing new: the way Dolan demonstrates the impossibility of a family feels completely new."

Christiane Peitz from Tagesspiegel speaks of a psychological thriller about the limits of communication and compares Louis' family to a theater of war, but remarks in comparison to Dolan's previous films: “So far, Dolan had built surprises into his anarchically bitter stories, small fantastic escapades. This time there is only a simple, wordless gesture of understanding between Catherine and Louis, clearly staged. "

By Scott Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter was simply the end of the world early on as a possible candidate in the category Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards in 2017 brought into the conversation and the film was later officially filed as a Canadian contribution. In December 2016, the film was put on the shortlist for foreign language films, from which the official nominations for the Academy Awards are made.

Awards

Dolan was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his work on the film . It was the second time that he was recognized by the jury. Dolan received the Art Cinema Award at the Hamburg Film Festival 2016. The film received nine nominations at the 2017 Canadian Screen Awards , for example in the categories of Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. As part of the Prix ​​Lumières 2017, Gaspard Ulliel received a nomination for Best Actor and Gabriel Yared for Best Music. In addition, Simply the End of the World was nominated for Best French-Language Film. At the 2017 César awards ceremony , the film received a total of six nominations, including one for best foreign film . Gaspard Ulliel was honored for his role as a sick homosexual and Xavier Dolan for best director and best editing.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Simply the End of the World . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 162776 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b c d Tim Caspar Boehme: Summary of the Cannes Film Festival. Reality should fix it In: taz, May 23, 2016.
  3. ↑ Simply the end of the world In: cineman.ch. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  4. ↑ Simply the end of the world In: lagarce.net. Retrieved June 8, 2016.
  5. ↑ Simply the end of the world In: felix-bloch-erbe.de. Retrieved June 8, 2016.
  6. ↑ Kalle Somnitz and Anne Wotschke: The 69th Cannes Film Festival In: biograph, June 2016. Retrieved on June 8, 2016. (PDF; 15 MB)
  7. ↑ a b c Frédéric Jaeger: Simply the end of the world In: critic.de, May 19, 2016.
  8. ↑ a b Peter Debruge: Cannes Film Review: 'It's Only the End of the World' In: Variety, May 18, 2016.
  9. ↑ David Sexton: Cannes 2016: It's Only The End of the World, film review - Makes EastEnders look like an oasis of peace In: standard.co.uk, May 20, 2016. (English)
  10. ↑ Blake Williams: Cannes Dispatch # 3: It's Only the End of the World, The Park, The Red Turtle In: filmmakermagazine.com, May 20, 2016.
  11. ↑ Vladimir Kozlov: Cannes: Xavier Dolan's 'It's Only the End of the World' Sells to Russia In: The Hollywood Reporter, May 17, 2016.
  12. ↑ It's Only the End of the World ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tiff.net archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: tiff.net. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
  13. ↑ All films of the 16th Filmkunstmesse Leipzig 2016 In: filmkunstmesse.de. Accessed August 30, 2016 (PDF; 47 kB)
  14. ↑ Karolin Jacquemain: Filmfest Hamburg announces first highlights In: abendblatt.de, 22 August 2016.
  15. ↑ The 60th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® announces full 2016 program In: bfi.org.uk, September 2, 2016.
  16. ↑ Twelve Cannes award-winning films to be showcased in Goa In: indiatimes.com, November 8, 2016.
  17. ↑ Reason for approval for Simply the End of the World In: Voluntary Self-Control of the Film Industry. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  18. ↑ It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  19. ↑ Hannah Pilarczyk: Family drama by Xavier Dolan. Screaming and Silence In: Spiegel Online, December 28, 2016.
  20. ↑ Christiane Peitz: Xavier Dolans 'Simply the End of the World'. The anger over the prodigal son In: Der Tagesspiegel, December 29, 2016.
  21. ↑ Scott Feinberg: Feinberg Forecast: The First Look at the 89th Oscar Race In: The Hollywood Reporter, September 9, 2016.
  22. ↑ 60th anniversary of the Foreign Language Film Category In: oscars.org, October 11, 2016.
  23. ↑ Mark Olsen: Oscar foreign-language shortlist includes 'Toni Erdmann,' 'Land of Mine' and 'The Salesman' In: Los Angeles Times, December 15, 2016.
  24. ↑ Hamburger Filmfest awards prizes ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeit.de archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Die Zeit Online, October 8, 2016.
  25. ↑ 2017 Film Nominees In: academy.ca. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  26. ↑ Les nominés 2017 ( Memento des Originals from June 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.academiedeslumieres.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: academiedeslumieres.com. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
  27. ↑ 'Juste la fin du monde' nommé six fois aux César In: tvanouvelles.ca, January 25, 2017.
  28. ↑ French thriller 'Elle' awarded two Césars In: welt.de, February 25, 2017.