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  • 1991
  • R
  • Janus Films
  • 2 h 38 m
  • 1991
  • R
  • Janus Films
  • 2 h 38 m

Summary In 1999, Claire's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash. She rescues Sam and starts traveling around the world with him. Writer Eugene follows them and writes their story, as a way of recording dreams is being invented.

Directed By: Wim Wenders

Written By: Peter Carey, Solveig Dommartin, Michael Almereyda, Wim Wenders

  • 1991
  • R
  • Janus Films
  • 2 h 38 m
  • 1991
  • R
  • Janus Films
  • 2 h 38 m

Until the End of the World

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
63
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Summary In 1999, Claire's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash. She rescues Sam and starts traveling around the world with him. Writer Eugene follows them and writes their story, as a way of recording dreams is being invented.

Directed By: Wim Wenders

Written By: Peter Carey, Solveig Dommartin, Michael Almereyda, Wim Wenders

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
63
42% Positive
5 Reviews
58% Mixed
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
63
42% Positive
5 Reviews
58% Mixed
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
The scenes of artistic, scientific and communal triumph were significant. The isolated, solipsistic anger of each character, lost in their own identity loop, seemed like a perfect analogy for the conflicts in eastern Europe in the mid-1990s.
By Jordan Hoffman FULL REVIEW
88
Wenders weaves all his thematic and narrative threads together into a coherent, philosophical whole. Even with the apocalypse, though, his view isn't despairing. A new direction, a new beginning emerges out of the ashes of the old, image-overloaded world, and with it, a sort of muted optimism.
By Hal Hinson FULL REVIEW
80
To watch the 158-minute 1991 theatrical cut of Until the End of the World, Wim Wenders’s globetrotting, apocalyptic, pop-rock-saturated sci-fi odyssey, is to zone in and out of a meandering, wistful dream.
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50
In the logistically taxing effort to get all this on screen, Wenders has sacrificed some of his customary poetry. And the grand emotion and obsession needed to carry the two lovers around the world isn’t apparent in Hurt and Dommartin.
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50
Despite all of the personalized Wenders touches, it ultimately resembles many a top-heavy, star-laden, special-effects-driven production from the major-studio assembly lines.
By John Hartl FULL REVIEW
50
The movie itself, unfortunately, is not as compelling as the tempest that went into its making.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
40
Despite a few felicitous moments, the film is turgid, pretentious, and dramatically lifeless.
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Production Company Argos Films, Road Movies Filmproduktion, Village Roadshow Pictures, Wim Wenders Stiftung
Release Date Dec 25, 1991
Duration 2 h 38 m
Rating R
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Tagline . . . the ultimate road movie
Website https://www.criterionchannel.com/until-the-end-of-the-world
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Awards

Guild of German Art House Cinemas
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
20/20 Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 1 Nomination

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