Official Selection – Venice International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival
Winner – Silver Lion for Best Direction, Toronto International Film Festival
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.
Included with this online package is a bonus discussion with filmmaker Roy Andersson
“A MARVEL. In the world of About Endlessness, which is to say our world, you can head out to drown your sorrows and stumble right into a vision of the sublime.” — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
“Strange and singular and spectacular. About Endlessness gloriously collages the absurdity and grandeur of the everyday. At the age of 78, Andersson continues to make films that desire to capture no less than a grand sense of human existence — and that somehow achieve it.” — Alison Willmore, New York Magazine | Vulture
“Transfixing and quietly gorgeous. Delicately rapturous.” — Stephanie Zacharek, Time
