★★☆☆☆ Sebastian Fritzsch's End of Time (Endzeit, 2013) is a snapshot of a post-apocalyptic world, fashioned against the same deeply meditative backdrop of 1980s Soviet sci-fi. Yet, despite its melancholic methodology, this languid drama lacks the reflective, sociopolitical punch the sub-genre is renowned for embracing. A brief hand-drawn, stop-motion exposition announces the apocalypse that has befallen the world. Failing to truly explain the reasons behind the Earth's fall, End of Time's ambiguous opening initially entices its audience, before the realisation dawns that this bleak world's new veneer is merely a narrative device.
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- 2/15/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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