About Endlessness
critic Reviews
, 94% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score- About Endlessness sees writer-director Roy Andersson surveying the human condition with equal parts striking clarity, tenderness, and deadpan existential wit.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreChristy LemireFilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
If you are in the mood for something kind of quiet and pensive that will move you in a subtle way, this is it.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreJosh KupeckiAustin Chronicle
Funny, tragic, moving scenes unfold in Andersson's meticulously crafted frames.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRandy MyersSan Jose Mercury News
Roy Andersson is one of our greatest living filmmakers that you never heard of. Here's your chance to dive in.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreNick SchagerThe Daily Beast
A diverse expression of universal doubts, insecurities and desires, most of which have to do with loneliness.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreJustin ChangLos Angeles Times
The melancholia that courses through this movie is of a piece with its minimalism, notable in the concision of the individual scenes and the overall running time.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAlison WillmoreNew York Magazine/Vulture
Andersson continues to make films that desire to capture no less than a grand sense of human existence - and that somehow achieve it. Here's hoping this one isn't his last.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDan SareenVague Visages
Andersson depicts fragments of humanity, stitched together with humour and relatability, and without a hint of loftiness or condescension.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRay PrideNewcity
Minimalist melancholy... essential Andersson... Andersson’s despair is as heartening as deepest love. Flight is taken.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreCris KennedyThe Canberra Times (Australia)
Andersson isn't saying there is balance, he's saying there are small moments of kindness and joy to cherish.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDan BayerNext Best Picture
At least we have Roy Andersson making films to help us laugh and cry at life's absurdities until our energies transform into something new.
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