Waste of time

People are voting emotionally.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Juste la fin du monde is a play that enjoyed a great deal of success in the 1990's while the AIDS epidemic was still raging. A mother and her two sons and daughter settle down to a long day of anger and recrimination as her eldest son Louis returns to the family home after a long absence. So long an absence that he doesn't recognize his sister-in-law Catherine, while his brother sulks and spouts insults towards everyone. The film version makes what I believe is a grave error in casting: Vincent Cassel, 50ish, plays Antoine who is the elder brother here. Since Cassel is almost 20 years older than Gaspard Ulliel (Louis), and since the first born son is usually the one favoured by his mother, it doesn't make much sense to have Antoine bitching about his brother's supposed advantages in life. Louis should be the one vehemently protesting the raw deal he got in life.If birth order is of no concern to you, I'd like to say that Nathalie Baye gives another superb performance as the mother. She's a gold standard now among French actresses. Lea Seydoux does well as the confused, lonely Suzanne. Cassel and Ulliel do the best they can with their parts.

I just watched the Xavier Dolan film: "Juste la fin du monde". It is strange one...in the good sense of "stange"! The main character is a guy who come back home after 12 years absence to announce for his inevitable death to the family. What he is dying from, why he has left home in the first place...so many questions and so little answers. The whole movie has an atmosphere of something ...something from the past. Like a puzzle Dolan gives to the audience piece by piece the parts of the story, and at the end you being left full with questions and with one feeling of inevitability. The family is strange and in the same time so ordinary. The characters are very complicated - they don't know what to say or do, they are wavering over every possible feelings, they are terrified from the reality, they got angry at each other and to the world at the same time, deeply unhappy, each of them stuck into his/ hers personal hell... And actually it is an amazing film. I highly recommend it to all fans of European cinema.

Xavier Dolan, where have you been all my life? They say your latest film isn't as great as your previous ones, but it blew me away. TALENT.The acting. The music, original and non-original, and the way it is used so perfectly. The flash-backs, and the beauty and power in them. The dialogues. That feeling of wanting to say I love you, but I can't stand you - and soon we will never see each other again.

I think that we were all afraid a bit about Dolan and his work in the future. First movies that Xavier directed were all about LGBT and their attempt to survive in difficulty called social life. After I've seen this movie I am sure that Dolan will be one of the greatest directors this world has ever had. He tears your heart, than makes you smile, but after all you don't know if you should vomit or spit in your reflection in the mirror."It's only the end of the world" is a wonderfully directed and theatrically explained way of interpersonal misunderstanding. I can't help saying that I am overwhelmed by his work in total, but this is really something very special, very sour and full of truth.