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  • 2021
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2021
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 18 m

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 st...

Directed By: Roy Andersson

Written By: Roy Andersson

  • 2021
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2021
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 18 m

About Endlessness

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 30 Critic Reviews
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87
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 15 User Ratings
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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 st...

Directed By: Roy Andersson

Written By: Roy Andersson

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 30 Critic Reviews
87
90% Positive
27 Reviews
10% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 30 Critic Reviews
87
90% Positive
27 Reviews
10% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
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.
By John Anderson FULL REVIEW
91
May 1, 2021
As usual, Anderson offers a stirring, compelling counter-example to mainstream film, eschewing familiar, conventional character or plot-driven storytelling, mobile camerawork, or traditional editing. Instead, Anderson has deliberately embraced a rigorously minimalist, austere approach: deadpan-inflected, satirical vignettes, one-shot/one-scene camera set-ups, and occasional fade-to-blacks or abrupt cuts to mark the ending of one abstractly connected scene or idea to another, all meticulously planned, filmed, and edited from Anderson’s beloved Stockholm-based soundstage.
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90
Apr 30, 2021
The absence of God, the trauma of war, the weight of history: None of these are new ideas for Andersson, a fact that reaffirms the wisdom of this movie’s title. But the implied grandiosity of those themes is dissipated, again and again, by the exquisite lightness of his touch and the startling tenderness of his gaze.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
88
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.
By Josh Larsen FULL REVIEW
83
Apr 28, 2021
While Andersson has continued in his signature style for this coda, erecting pallid beige-and-grey backlot dioramas with a painterly eye for crowded composition, he repurposes the technique toward a newfound elegiac, gentle register.
By Charles Bramesco FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 30, 2021
The “endlessness” of the film encompasses a lot of absurdity and disappointment, but its notes of grace sound the loudest.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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47% Mixed
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13% Negative
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13% Negative
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Production Company Roy Andersson Filmproduktion, 4 1/2 Film, Arte France Cinéma, Essential Filmproduktion GmbH, Film Capital Stockholm, Parisienne de Production, Société Parisienne de Production, Sveriges Television (SVT), Göteborg, ZDF/Arte
Release Date Apr 30, 2021
Duration 1 h 18 m
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Website https://www.aboutendlessnessfilm.com/
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Awards

Guldbagge Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
London Critics Circle Film Awards
• 2 Nominations

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