Family of Yesterday

What were families like in the past?

Families of the 21st century were very different from ours. They were based on blood ties, which seems strange today. Love was present, but often poorly expressed...

Discover works reflecting the complexity of family relationships in the past

Book

Only the End of the World tells the story of Louis, who returns to see his family after many years to tell them of his death, but no one really understands him.

Learn more >

Movie

The film Only the End of the World, adapted from the book by Jean-Luc Lagarce, explores the theme of incommunicability within the family.

Learn more >

Film Director

Quebec director Xavier Dolan is known for his intense films about family relationships, in which raw emotions and the unspoken dominate.

Learn more >

Song

Mother by John Lennon is a moving song in which he expresses the pain of parental abandonment, crying out for his unfulfilled need for love.

Learn more >

"You don't understand me, you never understood me."

Louis in “Just the End of the World”