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Original Name: Om Det Oändliga
English Name: About Endlessness
Year: 2019
Run Time: 76'
Language: Swedish
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway
Director: Roy Andersson
Producer: Johan Carlsson, Pernilla Sandström, Philippe Bober
Cast: Jan-Eje Ferling, Martin Serner, Bengt Bergius, Tatiana Delaunay, Anders
Hellström, Thore Flygel
Screenplay: Roy Andersson
Cinematographer: Gergely Pálos
Editor: Johan Carlsson, Kalle Boman, Roy Andersson
Sound Designer: Robert Hefter
Costume Designer: Julia Tegström, Isabel Sjöstrand, Sandra Parment, Amanda Ribrant
Production Designer: Anders Hellström, Frida E. Elmström, Nicklas Nilsson
Production Company: Roy Andersson Filmproduktion AB
World Sales: Coproduction Office
World Sales Phone: +33 01 56 02 60 00
World Sales Email: sales@coproductionoffice.eu
Roy Andersson was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. His feature films include A Swedish Love Story (1970) and Giliap (1975). In 2014 he completed his award-winning "Living" trilogy, made up of the features Songs from the Second Floor (2000); You, the Living (2007); and then A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014). About Endlessness (2019) is his latest film. The films cemented his personal style characterized by stationary shots and meticulously conceived tableaux, absurdist comedy as well and an essential humanity.
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. Where there is tragedy there is also hope, and humour. There are moments too of vitality, the infectious energy of teenagers dancing outside a café; a young man, who has not yet met love; another who expands his mind with scientific thought.
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.
