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The End of Time

Play trailer Poster for The End of Time Released Nov 29, 2013 1h 49m Documentary Play Trailer Watchlist
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An exploration of people's perception of time.

Critics Reviews

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Jonathan Romney Film Comment Magazine [I]t's about a series of seemingly disconnected topics linked by an abstract idea, and by a certain exploratory spirit. Feb 6, 2014 Full Review Miriam Bale New York Times It's easy to mock some of these platitudes, and it's to Mr. Mettler's credit that he never does. His questions are answered with more questions, because words seem ultimately useless in his query. Nov 28, 2013 Full Review Eric Hynes Time Out It leaves you without the net of linear temporality, frightened and freed by the implications. Rated: 4/5 Nov 26, 2013 Full Review Jason Anderson Cinema Scope At the end of these many and varied travels, we arrive at a film that is Mettler's most readily engaging since Picture of Light... Jan 30, 2018 Full Review Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews A scientific/philosophical/religious meditation on Time. That's something you don't see in a movie theater routinely, all the more compelling since it is visually rewarding as well. Nov 30, 2013 Full Review Simon Foster Screen-Space In painting such a densely existential picture of us all, [Mettler] ultimately engages no one. Jul 9, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Great filming, but, dull and boring Documentary to watch as it doesn't seem to have any direction with random photography. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Another genre-bending and ambitious, fascinating film. A tad slow and disconnected here and there but the concepts straddled are near-philosophical in importance. Great photography too. Worth the watch...quite mind/knowledge expanding! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member This film had some good/interesting concepts however it was slow paced and the guy doing most of the talking was so monotone you just wanted to go to sleep.. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member As a documentary about physics, existentialism, humanity, and other such elseness, this film lacks substance but these come second to the audio visual experience for which I found both eerie and calming at times. Unfortunately this aspect is overkilled, feeling more like filler instead of inspiring awe. I can't help but think that Mettler went into production with a little too loose of an agenda trying to find magic in greatly diverse footage but ultimately lacking the craft and yielding an overly ambitious unfocused vision that feels unbalanced with too little of some components and too much of others. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Documentarian Peter Mettler interviews various people (scientists, artists, hermits, mystics) about their thoughts on time, using poetic footage of lava flows, particle accelerators, and digital mandalas as a visual background. A meditative but unfocused experiment that at times gets a little too hippie-dippy-acid-trippy for its own good. At two hours of plotless visuals, it's obviously not for everyone, but it earns points for earnestly exploring serious philosophical concepts that most movies shy away from. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member The End of Time is basically a huge waste of time. A series of seemingly unconnected thoughts that aim to be deep but fall short. Many somewhat awkwardly long gaps of time where nothing is being said, just scenes of random things, like lava. I think they should have put a disclaimer at the start of this movie that says "This movie is best watched with a big joint and a bag of Doritos". It's really boring if your sober, might be entertaining after some drugs. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis An exploration of people's perception of time.
Director
Peter Mettler
Producer
Cornelia Seitler, Ingrid Veninger, Brigitte Hofer, Gerry Flahive
Screenwriter
Peter Mettler, Alexandra Gill
Distributor
First Run
Production Co
Arte, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Maximage GmbH, National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Grimthorpe Film, SRG SSR
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 29, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 16, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$3.8K
Runtime
1h 49m