About Endlessness

2019 [SWEDISH]

Action / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 62% · 104 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 62%
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 8641 8.6K

dark comedy surrealism

Plot summary

A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

Director

Roy Andersson Photo
Roy Andersson

Top cast

Göran Holm Photo
Göran Holm as Café Guest
Mattias Königsson Photo
Mattias Königsson
Pär Fredriksson Photo
Pär Fredriksson as Man
Conny Block Photo
Conny Block as Sverker Ohlsson
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
704.28 MB
1280*714
Swedish 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 16 min
Seeds 6
1.41 GB
1920*1072
Swedish 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 16 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CtlAltDel 8 / 10

Ode to Humanity

31 vignettes that are a cross between the film Wings of Desire + paintings by Edward Hopper + a thematic apperception test.The camera doesn't move.The colour palate is richly muted.Not a lot happens.Some scenes are completely banal.Some are fantasy.Some tragic.Still, it's engrossing in its quiet feeling of solitude.
Reviewed by evanston_dad 6 / 10

Interesting for Awhile

"About Endlessness" is a feature length collection of long static camera shots, each capturing a moment in the life of a human being. Some of the moments are mundane, some are disturbing, some are funny, many are melancholy. I was game to engage with the film's experimental approach for awhile -- it's like going to an art museum and having the paintings you're looking at come alive within their frames. But the concept eventually gets a bit monotonous and the film over stays its welcome by a good fifteen minutes or so. The compositions look absolutely gorgeous, though, even when what's on the screen is nothing but a simple, bare room.Grade: B.
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