<Li> € 6.9 million ($7.4 million) </Li> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $9 million </Td> </Tr> <P> It's Only the End of the World (French: Juste la fin du monde) is a 2016 drama film written, edited and directed by Xavier Dolan . The film is based on the play of the same name by Jean - Luc Lagarce and stars Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux and Vincent Cassel . It is about a young playwright who reunites with his family after a 12 - year absence to inform them he is going to die . </P> <P> 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 Dolan and Cotillard challenged by the awkwardness in dialogue inherent in Lagarce's work . </P>

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