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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 only 76 minutes long. And in every one of those minutes, it strikes an exquisite balance between deadpan humor and acute despair, offset by the faintest glimmer of hope. It s the latest film from the great Swedish writer-director Roy Andersson, who isn t as well-known as he should be in the U.S. But if you ve seen his movies, like Songs From The Second Floor or the wonderfully titled A Pigeo

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