The End of Time

Released Nov 29, 2013

1h 49m

Documentary

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9 Reviews

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500+ Ratings

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An exploration of people's perception of time.

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Serge L

Hypnotic film about time and the relativity of it. Space-time and the uncertainty principle shows time is part of the fabric of what we are. Time is experienced differently according to what you do or where you are. This film is so not chatty that I saw it with the commentary and there still were long silences. It does make you think.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/20/17

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Jonathan Romney

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[I]t's about a series of seemingly disconnected topics linked by an abstract idea, and by a certain exploratory spirit.

Feb 6, 2014

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Simon Foster

Screen-Space

In painting such a densely existential picture of us all, [Mettler] ultimately engages no one.

Jul 9, 2013

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Synopsis

An exploration of people's perception of time.

Director: Peter Mettler
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