About Endlessness

The 2019 Swedish-language film About Endlessness is an example of the power of a title and the significance of the length of a shot. Comprised, in the style of 1,001 Nights, of what one reviewer has called "tiny worlds" (a father kneels in the mud to tie his daughter's shoe, a woman takes simple but extreme pleasure in a glass of champagne), it is a fil…