Wim Wenders'S UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD is really two movies, joined rather awkwardly at the hip. The first half of this three-hour marathon is an enjoyable, off-the-cuff road movie with a post-modernist, technological spin; the second is a half-baked, indulgent meditation on the nature
of the recorded image.
The year is 1999, and the world is on the brink of a nuclear confrontation. Claire Tourneur (Solveig Dommartin), a disenchanted young bohemian, is involved in a lackluster relationship with novelist Eugene Fitzpatrick (Sam Neill). Driving across Europe on her way home from a decadent party, she
has a car accident that involves her with two bank robbers, C...
Released:
1991
Rated:
R
Length:
178 mins