ABOUT ENDLESSNESS
76 MINUTES/ 4K/ COLOUR/ SWEDEN/ GERMANY, NORWAY/ 2019 (WITH ENGLISH AND FRENCH SUBTITLES)
A FILM BY ROY ANDERSSON
WITH JAN-EJE FERLING, MARTIN SERNER, BENGT BERGIUS
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 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.
“it somehow manages to imbue common, depressing thoughts with an ethereal majesty” - Cultural Mining
“My take is that the film is a study in guilt, failure, shame, cruelty, lack of love, loss of faith, death, tragedy, disappointment, fear of death, lack of compassion, jealously, treachery of politics, Muslim honor killing, betrayal, thwarting of ambition, distrust of the financial system and inconvenience.“ - Set the Bar
“stunning meditation on human nature is one-of-a-kind“ - What She Said