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- 2013
- TV-G
- First Run Features
- 1 h 49 m
- 2013
- TV-G
- First Run Features
- 1 h 49 m
Summary With stunning cinematography and a knack for capturing astonishing moments, The End of Time travels the planet
Directed By: Peter Mettler
Written By: Alexandra Rockingham Gill, Peter Mettler
- 2013
- TV-G
- First Run Features
- 1 h 49 m
- 2013
- TV-G
- First Run Features
- 1 h 49 m
The End of Time
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Summary With stunning cinematography and a knack for capturing astonishing moments, The End of Time travels the planet
Directed By: Peter Mettler
Written By: Alexandra Rockingham Gill, Peter Mettler
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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67% Mixed
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From the sun’s surface to the deep earth, Hawaiian volcanoes to Detroit’s decay, Mettler explores the different ways that we experience and define time, using his own documentary as a mind-bending demonstration of its mutability.
[Mr. Mettler’s] images of galaxies, mandalas, particle accelerators and glowing red lava become his real subjects. He uses music and sound to control the pace, to slow time, as if cinema were a form of enforced meditation.
Mettler is in no hurry to get to any particular point in The End Of Time. The film leaps from subject to subject—slowly, and somewhat haphazardly.
Any sense of narrative momentum or intellectual focus quickly unravels as the film evolves into an almost wordless symphony of disconnected images, sounds and music. But the nature-heavy montages are mostly beautiful and bizarre enough to excuse the film’s pretentious excesses.
The awe incited by the world is enough — no pontificating necessary, man.
Intermittently interesting but more often pretentious, this sluggish exploration of time as real and conceived concepts rarely does more than regurgitate philosophical platitudes without locating the depth to make them interesting.
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Production Company
Grimthorpe Film,
Maximage GmbH,
National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Release Date Nov 29, 2013
Duration 1 h 49 m
Rating TV-G
Genres
Tagline Everything Begins Now
Website
http://theendoftimemovie.com/
Awards
Swiss Film Prize
• 3 Nominations
Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
CPH:DOX
• 2 Nominations
