About Endlessness

Name: About Endlessness
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Released: April 30, 2021
Duration: 78 min
Rating: 87
Cast: Amanda Davies, Anders Hellström, Ania Nova, Anja Broms, Anton Forsdik

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: April 30, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Amanda Davies, Anders Hellström, Ania Nova, Anja Broms, Anton Forsdik, Bengt Bergius, Bertil J. Nyberg, Conny Block, Florencio Urbano, Gloria Ormandlaky, Inger Hernmyr, Jan Steen, Jan-Eje Ferling, Jessica Louthander, Karin Engman, Kristina Ekmark, Lesley Leichtweis Bernardi, Lisa Blohm, Lotta Forsberg, Marie Burman, Martin Serner, Rebecka Enholm, Tatiana Delaunay, Thore Flygel

Summary: About Endlessness is a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality. We wander, dreamlike, gently guided by our Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments take on the same significance as historical events: a couple floats over a war-torn Cologne; on the way to a birthday party, a father stopsAbout Endlessness is a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality. We wander, dreamlike, gently guided by our Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments take on the same significance as historical events: a couple floats over a war-torn Cologne; on the way to a birthday party, a father stops to tie his daughter’s shoelaces in the pouring rain; teenage girls dance outside a café; a defeated army marches to a prisoner of war camp. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, About Endlessness presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence. [Venice]… Expand

Director: Roy Andersson

Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 78 min

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John Anderson

May 5, 2021

A film like About Endlessness invites comparisons not to other movies, but to other media. The Preludes of Chopin or Debussy, for instance, brilliant flashes that don’t need to go anywhere, but might. Or something like Baudelaire’s “Paris Spleen,” an intriguing whole composed of incongruous poetic fragments. Read full review

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A.O. Scott

Apr 29, 2021

Each shot is a kind of sight gag, a visual and philosophical joke with absurdity in the setup and sorrow in the punchline. But this time, more of the jokes are one-liners, in which the premise and the payoff are one and the same. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Sep 9, 2019

The least funny and most tender movie that Andersson has made since building his own studio with the profits he’d saved from decades of enormously successful commercial work, About Endlessness adopts the same qualities of life itself: it’s both short and infinite. Read full review

Ty Burr

Apr 28, 2021

The film has an epic sense of devastated wonder that can only come from standing as far back from the parade as one possibly can while still holding on to one’s empathy. Read full review

Josh Larsen

Apr 29, 2021

It’s another astounding assemblage of dryly humorous, immaculately designed, fixed-camera vignettes, if an even more morose collection than the previous ones. Read full review

Empire Nick de Semlyen

Nov 12, 2020

Lord knows how it all connects, but there's a strange power in how About Endlessness flows, jumping around the whole spectrum of human experience and the ridiculous places to which our emotions push us. Andersson's pigeon is at flight once more, and cinema is a richer place for it. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Apr 9, 2021

While I like the challenge of his self-conscious cinema, I find the urge to go glib every time I encounter one of his films almost too hard to resist. Read full review

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