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Until the End of the World (1992)
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Synopsis
Wim Wenders
' sprawling cyberpunk noir epic -- shot in no less than nine different countries -- is set in 1999 and stars
Solveig Dommartin
as Claire, a young Frenchwoman who comes into contact with a large sum of money stolen during a bank heist; in her travels she picks up a mysterious American hitchhiker (
William Hurt
), who himself steals some of the money before parting from her company. Upon discovering the theft, Claire sets out on his trail, with both a Hammett-styled German private eye (Rudiger Vogler) as well as her former lover, a novelist portrayed by
Sam Neill
, in tow. The hitchhiker is really Sam Farber, the son of an underground scientist (
Max von Sydow
), and his mission is to travel the globe in order to acquire the funding necessary to develop the technology which will allow his blind mother (
Jeanne Moreau
) to "see" visual recordings of her family members; the second half of the film takes place largely in the Farbers' compound in the Australian Outback, where Sam, Claire and the others take refuge while attempting to bring the sight project to its fruition, in the meantime pondering earth's future in the wake of a nuclear disaster in outer space. Wenders' most ambitious film to date, budgeted at $23 million, Until the End Of the World is also among his most seriously flawed efforts -- despite a keen sense of cultural perception, a fascinating sci-fi take on life in the near-future and stunning Robby Muller cinematography, the picture never quite gels. Much of the blame seems to fall upon its distributors -- upon its wide release in 1991, the movie was drastically cut to a running time of 2 1/2 hours, resulting in a disjointed narrative that doesn't shift gears so much as grind them as the action moves from country to country. Still, while a three-hour version, issued on laserdisc in Japan, comes closer to realizing the full scope of Wenders' epic vision, rumors of a five-hour director's cut -- said to have been screened to thunderous applause at a handful of film festivals -- continue to persist, suggesting that a masterpiece may well exist here after all. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
Cast
Ernie Dingo
Burt
Solveig Dommartin
Claire Tourneur
William Hurt
Trevor McPhee/Sam Farber
Eddy Mitchell
Raymond Monnet
Sam Neill
Eugene Fitzpatrick
Chick Ortega
Chico Remy
Elena Smirnowa
Krasikova
Max von Sydow
Henry Farber
Rüdiger Vogler
Philip Winter
Jeanne Moreau
Edith Farber
Production Crew
Ian Gracie
Art Director
Jan Schulbach
Art Director
Robby Müller
Cinematographer
Graeme Revell
Composer (Music Score)
Peter Gabriel
Composer (Music Score)
R.E.M.
Composer (Music Score)
U2
Composer (Music Score)
Montserrat Casanove
Costume Designer
Wim Wenders
Director
Peter Przygodda
Editor
Peter Gabriel
Featured Music
R.E.M.
Featured Music
U2
Featured Music
Anatole Dauman
Producer
Jonathan Taplin
Producer
Julia Overton
Producer
Wim Wenders
Producer
Sally Campbell
Production Designer
Thierry Flamand
Production Designer
Michael Almereyda
Screenwriter
Peter Carey
Screenwriter
Solveig Dommartin
Screenwriter
Wim Wenders
Screenwriter
Maria Jose Branco
Set Designer
Year: 1992
Runtime: 270
Country: Australia
MPAA Rating: R
for language and sensuality
Category: Feature
Genre
Science Fiction
Produced by
Argos Films
Road Movies Filmproduktion
Village Roadshow Pictures
Release
December 25, 1991 (USA)
by Warner Brothers
© 2009 Spout LLC. Portions of content provided by All Movie Guide.