After 12 years away from home Louis, a successful writer, returns home to notify his family that he has a terminal illness. Waiting for him are his younger sister, with whom he has never had time to establish a real relationship; his older brother, who has always been jealous of his success; his sister-in-law; and his mother, who is still hoping for a rapprochement.
A simple plot, that of Xavier Dolan’s “It’s Only the End of the World,” is put at the service of a theme that is deep and complicated to deal with. 

Serving the young Canadian director is an exceptional cast: Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Nathalie Baye and Léa Seydoux. Their feelings (and resentments) are intertwined and serve as the backdrop for dialogues in which family chaos reigns supreme. As in a real house, people interrupt each other, change rooms, get up in the middle of a speech, talk while thinking about the dishes to be washed or the next course, yell at each other from one side of the house to the other. 

Xavier Dolan does not leave behind the small details and especially the looks, which are revelatory of truths too hard to say verbally. We have selected 10 frames that encapsulate the essence of the film.