Synopsis
About Endlessness (Om det oändliga, 2019) is a Swedish drama by Roy Andersson, available to watch online on iFILM. Shot over six years, the film runs 76 minutes and is built entirely from brief, self-contained vignettes. A father ties his daughter's shoes in the rain. A couple drifts above a ruined city. A priest loses his faith mid-sermon. Nothing connects them except a narrator's voice that introduces each scene with a quiet "I saw a man who…"
Andersson won the Silver Lion for Best Director at the 2019 Venice Film Festival for the film. His method is unchanged from his earlier work — static camera, washed-out interiors, figures who barely move — but here it serves a different purpose. The vignettes range from mundane to surreal, from wartime to the present, treating each with the same unhurried attention.
Whether a given moment is comic or heartbreaking often depends on how long Andersson lets the camera sit. The film rewards patience and resists summary. Stream About Endlessness (2019) online on iFILM.
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