Documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer will make his fiction debut before the end of the year with The end. A post-apocalyptic musical comedy that brings together several film stars, led by the British Tilda Swinton. The original project has just released the first trailer, where the protagonist and the rest of the cast they sing for their lives in this co-production created between Denmark, Ireland, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Sweden. But… What is this story nominated for the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival about?
In The end We find Swinton who plays a protective mother to her family, living in a bunker for decades after the end of the world. His son, played by George Mackay, has never seen the outside world. They are one of the last families on Earthbut the arrival of a young girl at the entrance to their underground fortress will threaten their peaceful family life. The cast is completed by Michael Shannon, Moses Ingram, Lennie James, Tim Mclnnerny, Bronagh Gallagher and Danielle Ryan. The scenario of The end is co-written by Oppenheimer himself and Rasmus Heisterberg, responsible for the adaptation of Millenium: Men who didn’t like women. In the preview you can see how the delicate bonds of optimism that have kept the clan wealthy begin to disintegrate as they begin to feelings resurface which have been repressed for a long time.
“The End” Trailer
Oppenheimer is behind magnificent documentaries, such as The act of killing And The look of silence. Both have consecrated the American auteur with two Oscar nominations for Best Documentary Feature and now the leap into the realm of cinema seems to have been greeted with a certain polarization in the Telluride and Toronto festivalssome criticize its music section, while other members of the trade press praise the audacious and thrilling tale of this pessimistic survival drama.
The trailer for The end It is clear that the proposal will focus on the future relationship of the young protagonist and the new inhabitant of the family bunker, within a collection of original dramatic themes, under the theme of forgiveness, love, reconciliation and hope. Distributed by Neon on the North American continent, it will be released in theaters next December 6. On the same day that A24, its rival in the independent field, also published another story about the end of the world: Year 2000.
An incredible group of actors
Tilda Swinton’s year has been downright impressive and she’s surely one of the candidates for a 2025 Oscar nomination for her role in The next room. The melodrama directed by Pedro Almodóvar and with which the man from La Mancha won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. In 2025, Swinton will appear in The ballad of a little gamblerthe next story from German filmmaker Edward Berger (Everything is calm at the front).
For her part, Shannon was present at the distribution of Bikers and in 2025 we will see it in Nurembergthe film about the trials of Nazi leaders after World War II in which he will share a cast with Russell Crowe and Rami Malek, among others. MacKay is one of the young promises of the English acting pool, having starred in such industry-relevant offerings as 1917 either The Beast. Ingram has a short career in the industry, but despite this he has already been part of streaming series as relevant as Queen’s Gambit or the series Obi-Wan Kenobi. In July, The Lady in the Lake premiered on Apple TV+, a mystery series in which he co-starred with Natalie Portman.
End of the world cinematic fashion
As an accurate reflection of the times we live in, celluloid reproduces a new interest in depicting post-apocalyptic stories. There is the above Year 2000 and in the audiovisual radiography of the country with series such as At the end either Apocalypse Z: The beginning of the end. In terms of blockbusters, the biggest representative is Furious either A quiet place: Day 1 and on the small screen, HBO will offer us the second season of The Last of Us 2 And Prime Video has also left us in its catalog the adaptation of the video game, To fall.
