Xavier Dolan, Grand Prix - Juste la Fin du Monde (It's Only the End of the World) © Valéry Hache / AFP
It’s Only the End of the World, by Xavier Dolan, Grand Prix
The Grand Prix has been awarded by actors Valeria Golino and Donald Sutherland to It’s Only the End of the World by Xavier Dolan
“I’d like to thank the Festival, Thierry Frémaux, Nancy Grant, my producer and Anne Dorval, who first told me about this play. I want to thank the Jury for having felt the emotion of the film. It’s not always easy to share your emotions with others. Violence is sometimes a cry, a material that kills. I hope I didn’t let Jean-Luc Lagarce down. Everything you do in life, you do in order to be loved, and to be accepted. At least that’s true of me. The older I get, the more I realise it’s not easy to be understood. I know now that I have to make films that resemble me. Without compromising. I know that, just like two years ago, this moment is going to change my life. As Anatole France said, “I prefer the madness of passion to the wisdom of indifference.”
