About Endlessness

About Endlessness

NR 2019 · 76 min · ★ 6.5 · Drama, Fantasy, Comedy

A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

Directed by Roy Andersson · Written by Roy Andersson

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