Rent About Endlessness (2019)

3.3 of 5 from 144 ratings
1h 14min
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Synopsis:
A couple floats over a war-town 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, 'About Endlessness' is a beautiful work which Andersson presents as his final film, a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.
Actors:
Bengt Bergius, Anja Broms, Marie Burman, , Tatiana Delaunay, , Jan-Eje Ferling, , Lotta Forsberg, , Fanny Forsdik, Anders Hellström, , Stefan Karlsson, , , Jessica Louthander, , Stefan Palmqvist, Vanja Rosenberg
Directors:
Producers:
Johan Carlsson, Pernilla Sandström
Writers:
Roy Andersson
Aka:
Om det oändliga
Studio:
Curzon / Artificial Eye
Genres:
Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Collections:
Award Winners, Lions on the Lido, Top 10 Best Last Films: World Cinema, Top Films
Countries:
Sweden
Awards:

2019 Venice Film Festival Silver Lion

BBFC:
Release Date:
26/04/2021
Run Time:
74 minutes
Languages:
Swedish Dolby Digital 2.0, Swedish DTS 5.1
Subtitles:
English
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • Introduction to Roy Andersson Films
  • Trailer
BBFC:
Release Date:
26/04/2021
Run Time:
78 minutes
Languages:
Swedish LPCM Stereo, Swedish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Subtitles:
English
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
  • Introduction to Roy Andersson Films
  • Trailer

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Reviews (4) of About Endlessness

Perhaps the last work of a contemporary master - About Endlessness review by CP Customer

Spoiler Alert
01/06/2021

This is probably not the best Roy Andersson film to begin with if you are new to his work (watch 'Scenes From the Second Floor', 'You the Living' and 'A Pigeon Sat on a Branch...' before this one) but it does summarise the key themes of his earlier films.

Once again the Samuel Beckett comparisons are well justified. The boundaries between tragedy and comedy are constantly teased and tested. Andersson is particularly good at bringing out profoundly humane qualities in both day-to-day scenarios and scenes of transcendant power.

To fully appreciate 'About Endlessness' it helps to take in the recent documentary 'Being a Human Person', where Andersson talks about his latest work with quiet passion and dry humour.

It is sad to learn that 'About Endlessness' is Andersson's final film. Each of his movies takes a very long time to make, with even the apparent outdoor scenes elaborately staged in his studio / home.

Fittingly, his films are now receiving overdue worldwide acclaim.

4 out of 4 members found this review helpful.

Bleak vision of the human condition from Roy Andersson - About Endlessness review by PD

Spoiler Alert
07/05/2021

This latest offering from Roy Andersson is typically bleak, and even his trademark humour is in noticeably short supply here, although to be fair the film is not without brief snatches of joy amidst the rubble.

The film is narrated by a young woman who 'remembers' certain people from an undefined future (beyond the grave?). What follows is a series of vignettes or poetic fragments of varying degrees of absurdity and scope, with a priest's crisis of faith one of the few linking threads, although certain themes reoccur often, notably the way people become so engrossed in their own concerns that the essence of eternity is hidden from them. A man whose car breaks down on a lonely road fails to see the extraordinary sight of a flock of migrating birds wheeling overhead — much less the majestic plain that surrounds him under a canopy of sky; a dentist who has become dependent on the bottle stares glumly into his glass at the bar, unwilling to turn around and look at the sight of snow falling while ethereal voices sing “Silent Night.” “Everything is fantastic!” another man prompts him, but the dentist doesn’t even try to engage with him.

Andersson's trademark minimalist, austere style, eschewing conventional character development, plot, traditional editing, camera movement etc is once again very effective here, although few of the scenes here stick in the mind as much as some of the others in his so-called 'trilogy about being a human being' series. That said, it's still clearly an impressive piece of work.

3 out of 3 members found this review helpful.

Roy Andersson’s Guide to Dignified Suffering - About Endlessness review by griggs

Spoiler Alert
01/06/2025


About Endlessness is like staring out a rainy window and wondering where it all went wrong—but beautifully so. Roy Andersson serves up another tray of sad, still, vignettes where people drift through life pale as ghosts and just as haunted. It’s very Scandinavian: dry, deadpan, and steeped in quiet despair. Time feels frozen, colour’s been put on furlough, and joy is somewhere off-screen waiting for the bus.


About Endlessness might not uplift, but it nods knowingly from across the void. Sometimes that’s enough. Sometimes, that’s everything.


1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.

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