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Embed DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Our film critic Justin Chang first saw the film "About Endlessness" at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival, where it won a directing prize for the Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson. Justin recently re-watched the movie and found it just as funny and captivating as the first time. It began streaming this week on major platforms. Here's Justin's review. JUSTIN CHANG, BYLINE: "About Endlessness" is a fitting title for a movie about the futility of the human condition. But happily, the movie itself is anything but a slog. For one thing, it's onl...

Roy Andersson’s latest feature is a somber, exhilarating collection of self-defeating human specimens.

After finishing his film, DimLand, he is reconsidering what, exactly, he is making. “Spending almost all my time trying to make movies, I've realized a big part is about trying to feel some kind of communion with others.” DimLand tracks the connections we make with each other, with the past, and with the unknown. Get tickets for DimLand, available for streaming April 29. The movie is an atmospheric and surreal story of Brynn (Martha Brown) and Laika (Odinaka Ezeokoli), two Chicagoans who retreat from the city to a mountain cottage. Searching for peace and purpose, their visit is...

Four Good Days About Endlessness ** Over the course of 20 years, Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson has remained committed to his stylistic gimmick—master-shot tableaux of simple situations, often building to absurdist punch lines—to the point where it’s not clear what more he might have to say within this framework. Once again, his episodic scenes aren’t really connected to any overarching narrative, though a couple of characters—including a minister despairing over his loss of faith—do recur at various points. Mostly, however, we have moments in the lives of everyday people, he...

HomeFront: Animation sensation, IFFBoston picks, plus a voice for Sally Hemings Marie Morris © Provided by The Boston Globe Katie Mitchell, voiced by Abbi Jacobson, in a scene from "The Mitchells vs. The Machines." Welcome back to HomeFront, where May is hours away, pollen counts are climbing, and pandemic precautions are slowly easing. Until we reach herd immunity and full reopening of everything — and, frankly, even after that — plenty of us will keep taking advantage of our beefed-up at-home entertainment options. Read on for some tempting possibilities. FILM: If “...