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Until the End of the World

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Original title

Until the End of the World (Bis ans Ende der Welt)

Year

1991

Running time

150 min.

Country

Germany

Director

Wim Wenders

Screenwriter

Peter Carey, Wim Wenders, Michael Almereyda. Idea: Solveig Dommartin

Cast

Music

Graeme Revell

Cinematography

Robby Müller

Producer

Co-production Germany-France-Australia;

Warner Bros., Argos Films, Village Roadshow, Road Movies Filmproduktion

Genre

Drama. Sci-Fi. Romance. Fantasy | Road Movie. Dystopian film. Cult movie

Synopsis

Set in 1999, a woman (Dommartin) has a car accident with some bank robbers, who befriend and enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way she runs into another fugitive from the law (Hurt), an American who is being chased by the CIA. The charges are false, he says, that they want to confiscate a device his father has invented which allows you to record your dreams and vision. On the run from the bank robbers and the CIA, they span the globe, ending up in Australia at the research facility of his father (von Sydow), where they hope to be able to play back the recordings Hurt has made to his blind mother.

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Critics' reviews

"Wenders has sacrificed some of his customary poetry. And the grand emotion and obsession needed to carry the two lovers around the world isn’t apparent in Hurt and Dommartin."

Variety Staff: Variety
"Wenders weaves all his thematic and narrative threads together into a coherent, philosophical whole. Even with the apocalypse, though, his view isn't despairing"

Hal Hinson: The Washington Post
"Despite all of the personalized Wenders touches, it ultimately resembles many a top-heavy, star-laden, special-effects-driven production from the major-studio assembly lines."

John Hartl: Seattle Times
"The movie itself, unfortunately, is not as compelling as the tempest that went into its making. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"What starts out promisingly enough continues considerably beyond the end of the world and wears out even the most determined Wenders fan."

Kathleen Maher: Austin Chronicle
"Despite a few felicitous moments, the film is turgid, pretentious, and dramatically lifeless."

Time Out
"The isolated, solipsistic anger of each character, lost in their own identity loop, seemed like a perfect analogy for the conflicts in eastern Europe in the mid-1990s."

Jordan Hoffman: The Guardian

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