{"id":497684,"date":"2026-05-22T16:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/497684\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:19:13","slug":"maria-martinez-bayona-on-her-existential-first-feature-the-end-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/497684\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Mart\u00ednez Bayona On Her Existential First Feature \u2018The End Of It\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn her first feature, the London-based Spanish filmmaker Maria Mart\u00ednez Bayona<\/a> has assembled an impressive collection of international, well-known actors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tRebecca Hall, Gael Garcia Bernal, Noomi Rapace, and Beanie Feldstein all star in The End Of It<\/a>, which follows Claire, a performance artist who, thanks to advancements in medicine, has reached the age of 250. But she is now ready to die.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe official synopsis reads: In a near-future world where ageing can be cured and death is now optional, Claire (Hall), a former provocative artist approaching her 250th birthday, decides she\u2019s had enough \u2013 she wants to die. Her decision stirs conflicts with her husband (Bernal), daughter (Noomi Rapace), and AI assistant (Beanie Feldstein), revealing the humorous complexity of their relationships. As Claire uses her impending death to reclaim\u202fher role as an artist, she is forced to face what it really means to die, to live, and the messy absurdity of it all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYears ago, I read an article. I\u2019ve almost memorized it now. It said something like \u2018The first person who will live to 150-years-old has already been born.\u2019 This completely blew my mind,\u201d Bayona said of the film\u2019s plot. \u201cI guess I was going through some existential crisis at that point. I started to think about what would happen if we could reach a point where we could just live very long lives. And what kind of relationships and societies we would have.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOn landing her impressive ensemble, Bayona said she was the beneficiary of a certain level of luck. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was a process of luck, being in the right place, and having a script that people liked when they read it,\u201d she said. \u201cWe developed the film, and then it fell to Ellen Chenoweth and Susanne Scheel, who are amazing casting directors. That took it to the next dimension.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe End Of It <\/strong>was produced by Emilie Jouffroy and Kamilla Kristiane Hod\u00f8l for Elation Pictures (The Damned), and Adri\u00e0 Mon\u00e9s Murlans for Fasten Films (Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell). Dyveke Bj\u00f8rkly Graver and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar co-produce for Eye Eye Pictures (Sentimental Values). The film was developed with the support of BBC Film and iFeatures.<\/p>\n

\n\tExecutive producers include JC Acosta and Erika Kennair for The Mediapro Studio, Claudia Yusef and Alice Ojha for BBC Film, and Ford Corbet, Nathan Klingher, and Apur Parikh for Barreling Wave Pictures.<\/p>\n

\n\tBankside Films is handling international sales excluding Latin America, which is managed directly by The Mediapro Studio, while WME Independent is representing North America.<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out our full interview with Maria Mart\u00ednez Bayona above.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Deadline Studio at Cannes<\/a> is sponsored by\u00a0<\/strong>SCAD<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In her first feature, the London-based Spanish filmmaker Maria Mart\u00ednez Bayona has assembled an impressive collection of international,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[10404,213657,18,117,19,17,216591,327,155374],"class_list":["post-497684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-cannes","tag-cannes-studio","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-maria-martu00ednez-bayona","tag-movies","tag-the-end-of-it"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116619140609334423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}