Earth
In a luxury survival bunker, a rich family lie to each other as Earth’s surface becomes unviable. But things change when a young woman stumbles on them in The End, a wonderful, end-of-the-world musical drama, says Simon Ings
By Simon Ings
Michael Shannon, George MacKay and Tilda Swinton in The End
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The End
Joshua Oppenheimer
(Streaming on MUBI)
Life on the planet’s surface has become nigh-on unbearable, but with money and resources enough, the finest feelings and highest aspirations of our culture can be perpetuated underground, albeit only for a chosen few.
In Joshua Oppenheimer’s unearthly drama The End, Michael Shannon plays the father, an oil magnate who, years ago, brought his family to safety in an old mine. Here, he rewrites his history and that of his company in a self-serving memoir dictated to his grown-up but inexperienced…
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