VIDEO : Canadian Director Xavier Dolan Talks About Adapting 'It's Only the End of the World'

'It's Only the End of the World' "If we lost the language, I didn't see what the purpose was [in doing the movie]," says Dolan on turning a wordy, abstract play into a more conventional film. The hard thing with adapting It's Only the End of the World is the playwright [Jean-Luc Lagarce] has a peculiar style that is completely incompatible with movies and how we talk in real life. The first time I read it, I was disoriented and unsure about pretty much everything. The story is very tragic but it is also trivial.