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Until the End of the World

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Average rating
(58%)
 
Starring: Solveig Dommartin | Pietro Falcone | Enzo Turrin | Chick Ortega | William Hurt
Director: Wim Wenders
Studio: METRODOME DISTRIBUTION LTD
Run time: 152 mins
Genres: World Cinema
Languages: English
Released: February 26, 2007
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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.

Rating of 2 stars out of 5
Radio Times

Originally released with a pioneering stereo soundtrack, Abel Gance's politically dubious conflagration movie was an undeniably ambitious project. Yet the experiment clearly failed, and not just because the producers re-edited the footage without Gance's consent. Essentially it's DeMille meets the Comet, with civilisation descending into increasingly sordid debauchery as the natural order is shattered by a series of spectacular disasters. Meanwhile, away from the chaos, scientist Victor Francen strives to find a way to deflect the approaching projectile, while his eccentric brother (Gance himself) spreads a penitential message that's both messianic and fascistic. It's attention-grabbing fare, but deeply imperfect.

Rating of 1 stars out of 5
Halliwell's Film Guide

Rambling, often confusing, sometimes boring road movie with moments of brilliance.

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5 out of 7 people found the following review helpful:

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very b lis movie

A Customer from england, 6th July, 2007

hated it dont send me any like this again

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3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:


Monotonous

A Customer from England, 22nd August, 2007

At first it seemed quite interesting, unusual characters and a potentially interesting plot but as the plot just aimslessy drifted the characters became irritating and i felt suicidal, fortunately i stopped the film before serious damage could be done.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:


Disappointing

A Customer from Reading, 14th October, 2008

I had seen it long long time ago, and I had a good memory of it. I don't know why, because I didn't like it this time around.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:


Very long road movie

Zamy from from London, 17th April, 2008

Wim Wenders has made at least 2 other longish road movies: 'Kings of the Road' and 'Paris Texas'. I have not seen the former but a relatively recent viewing of the latter revealed a film that was much less interesting than it appeared on first release. This effort has a similarly fractured narrative and a title taken from a U2 song. Along with Robert Muller's camerawork the soundtrack is the only other aspect of this this film that makes watching just about possible.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:


A Masterclass in how NOT to make a film

A Customer from London UK, 18th March, 2008

They should show this film in every film school as an example of how to turn a great concept, potent themes and fantastic locations into a muddy and shapeless plot, abysmal characterization, plain bad acting and some of the worst editing I've ever seen: although with acting as poor as this (it looks as though the director was giving them no help in understanding their role in the overrall plot), it doesn't surprise me that some of the cuts were so rough. Even the talent behind the soundtrack can't save this piece of indulgent, slovenly, poorly executed film-making. That this is from the same director as Wings of Desire must be a source of embarrassment to the cast & crew of this awful movie. I reserve special mention for the naff and amateurish performance from Solveig Dommartin, who could show a vegetable a thing or two about subtlety (or maybe it was in fact the other way round) and plainly has no grasp of the film actor's best friend 'less is more'. I don't want to speak ill of the dead, but I really can't imagine that her casting was the product of an audition process so much as a session on the couch. I resent the hours I wasted watching this film. Avoid it and get your fix of Euro-art house from watching the genius 3 colours trilogy (and the masterclass docu's on their DVD).

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