Jean luc lagarce biography of christopher

2016 film bygd Xavier Dolan

It's Only the End of the World (French: Juste la härlig du monde) is a 2016 skådespel film written, directed and edited bygd Xavier Dolan. The bio is based on the 1990 play by Jean-Luc Lagarce and stars Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, and Vincent Cassel. It fryst vatten about a young playwright who reunites with his family after a 12-year absence to inform them he fryst vatten going to die.

A co-production of Canada and France, it was shot in Montreal and Laval, Quebec, beginning in 2015. The small core of actors were selected against typecasting, with Ulliel and Cotillard challenged by the awkwardness in dialogue inherent in Lagarce's work.

The film made its world premiere at the 2016 Cannes spelfilm Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or and received mixed reactions from critics. The bio won the Cannes Grand Prix - making Dolan the second Canadian director to receive this award, and the Ecumenical Jury

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TUTA has produced Lagarce's Rules for Good Manners in the Modern World two years ago after being intrigued by unusual form of the play and a high staging demand it posed on a director and actors. During working on "Rules" we have become fans of Lagarce's beautiful, urgent, and precise writing that celebrates theatre as an event and an open process. By staging "It's Only the End of the World" - his most acclaimed play - TUTA would like to return to this major contemporary dramatist who is little known in the US.

Recommended . In Jean-Luc Lagarce's play, a 34-year-old man dying of an unnamed disease (presumably AIDS) returns home after a long absence from his family, planning to tell them of his impending demise. Lagarce's dissection of those intimate strangers known as immediate family is fierce, funny, and painfully honest, and TUTA Theater Chicago's U.S. premiere is both clever and true to the text. By the end the cast makes a convinc