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About Endlessness

Om det oändliga

2019

Roy Andersson

Martin Serner, Jessica Louthander, Tatiana Delaunay, Anders Hellström ...

6.3

1,081

Drama Inspired by “One Thousand and One Nights,” the celebrated collection of Middle Eastern and Indian folk tales. “About Endlessness,” in its juxtaposition of tableaux capturing moments in life, explores the preciousness and beauty of our existence, awakening in us the wish to maintain this eternal treasure and pass it on.

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Short, bittersweet and exquisitely imagined, Roy Andersson's latest compilation of mordant existential sketches finds him on familiar turf, and that's fine"	POS
United Kingdom	Xan Brooks The Guardian	"A divine comedy with moments of devilish wit (...) Lost souls and lonely hearts populate Roy Andersson’s deliciously odd follow-up to A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"You give Roy Andersson 76 minutes, and he'll give you the universe (...) 'About Endlessness' adopts the same qualities of life itself: it’s both short and infinite"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Sad, sweet and altogether sublime"	POS
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Light, glancing, absurdist, sometimes pungent and sometimes brooding (...) the off-beat sense of humor that characterized the trilogy is less evident than ever"	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"Andersson’s consistency may have made him a director for acolytes above all, but they will find this a satisfying and richly resonant lesson in obliqueness and sometimes opacity"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[It] is at once gloomy and vivid, 76 minutes worth of vignettes that are individually somber and cumulatively exhilarating."	POS
United States	Stephanie Zacharek Time	"It’s meditative, mournful and gently funny, and celebratory, too, but in a muted way. If you don’t know what kind of movie you’re in the mood for, this may be the one. It’s a tonic for listless times."	POS
United Kingdom	Dave Calhoun Time Out	"Roy Andersson marries lugubrious wit with deep feeling in his latest study of the human condition (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"One feels grateful overall for Andersson’s vision and visions (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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