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About Endlessness sees writer-director Roy Andersson surveying the human condition with equal parts striking clarity, tenderness, and deadpan existential wit. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

ABOUT ENDLESSNESS is a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor 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 cafe; 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.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

Swedish
Director:

Roy Andersson
Producer:

Johan Carlsson, Pernilla Sandstrom
Writer:

Roy Andersson
Release Date (Theaters):

Apr 30, 2021 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Apr 30, 2021
Runtime:

1h 16m
Production Co:

Parisienne de Production, arte France Cinéma, Société Parisienne de Production, 4 1/2 Film, ZDF/Arte, Roy Andersson Filmproduktion AB, Essential Filmproduktion GmbH, Film Capital Stockholm

Cast & Crew

Martin Serner
The Priest

Jessica Louthander

Tatiana Delaunay
Flying Woman

Anders Hellström

Jan-Eje Ferling
Man in the Stairs

Bengt Bergius
Psychiatrist

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Critic Reviews for About Endlessness

All Critics (45) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (4)

Though the dark humour of the earlier films is less in evidence here, the originality of Andersson's vision still impresses.

March 9, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

David Stratton
The Australian
It's the great procession of humanity - mercy and defeat and callousness all included.

December 5, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Clarisse Loughrey
Independent (UK)
For those familiar with what came before it, About Endlessness is a return to familiar ground - although its sketches are briefer, its jokes a little harder to pin down, its juxtapositions more elusive.

November 18, 2020 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Robbie Collin
Daily Telegraph (UK)
It's life not as we know it and yet precisely as we experience it.

November 13, 2020 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Tara Brady
Irish Times
Roy Andersson's latest has a more maudlin air to it than A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence and 2007's You, the Living - which, if you've experienced their bleak absurdity, you'll know is saying something.

November 10, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Dave Calhoun
Time Out
Absurdist humour, global history and abject horror sit side by side, all equally weighted and witnessed.

November 8, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Mark Kermode
Observer (UK)
Only Andersson could contemplate infinity and get across the idea of its endless tedium in a mere 76 minutes of screen time

April 9, 2021 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Roger Moore
Movie Nation
Overflows with intricacy, intimacy and emotion, and with glorious artistry in every single frame.

March 7, 2021 | Full Review…

Sarah Ward
Concrete Playground
What [Andersson] is doing is a bit of a magic trick, and I found that quite special.

March 5, 2021 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…

Simon Miraudo
Movie Squad (RTRFM 92.1)
...a perfect coda to a storied career...

March 4, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Eddie Harrison
film-authority.com
A diverting, though far-from-exceptional slice or art cinema, the film seems to be feigning profundity, and there's only a limited amount of enjoyment in playing along before the film seems to run dry.

March 4, 2021 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Jim Schembri
jimschembri.com
The cascading imagery evokes deep feelings... it's a powerful film, equal parts defeatist and exultant.

February 6, 2021 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…

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