Until the End of the World
- slow-burn
- inventive
- signature
Neutral, slow-burn, measured sci-fi / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.
Our read · Until the End of the World (1991) reads as a neutral, slow-burn, inventive sci-fi · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Until the End of the World
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