Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End gets a trailer

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From Academy Award®-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence) comes a poignant and deeply human musical about a family that survived the end of the world.

Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily life—until the arrival of a stranger, Girl, upends their happy routine. Son, a naïve twenty-something who has never seen the outside world, is fascinated by the newcomer, and suddenly the delicate bonds of blind optimism that have held this wealthy clan together begin to fray. As tensions rise, their seemingly idyllic existence starts to crumble, with long-repressed feelings of remorse and resentment threatening to destroy the family’s delicate balance. But their reckoning with difficult truths also points to a different way forward, one based on acceptance, love, and a capacity for change.

You can read our review here.

An urgent and unforgettable cautionary tale, the film stars Academy-Award® winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton, The Eternal Daughter, Suspiria), Academy-Award® nominee Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals, Revolutionary Road), BAFTA-nominee George Mackay (1917, The Beast), and Emmy-nominee Moses Ingram (The Queen’s Gambit, The Tragedy of Macbeth).

The screenplay is by Oppenheimer and Rasmus Heisterberg (A Royal Affair), with songs by Joshua Schmidt (music) and Oppenheimer (lyrics). Marius de Vries is the Executive Music Producer.

The End opens in the US on 6th December 2024.