About Endlessness
Directed by Roy Andersson
2019Feature76 minSweden
A dreamlike reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, where small moments carry the weight of history.
Synopsis
A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality. AboutEndlessness_FWL_Incredible_sm.png Download High Rez Poster 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.
The director
Roy Andersson
Roy Andersson is a Swedish master of deadpan tableaux. Songs from the Second Floor won the Jury Prize at Cannes, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence won the Golden Lion, and About Endlessness won the Silver Lion for Best Director at Venice.
