"I believed in words. And I believed in the magic and healing powers of storytelling"
Wim Wenders’ Until the End of the World is a decades-in-the-making, globe-trotting science fiction odyssey conceived as the ‘ultimate road movie’. In 1999, an Indian nuclear satellite begins to spiral out of control toward Earth sparking a mass panic across the world. Claire Tourneur (Solveig Dommartin), couldn’t care less and instead falls in love with Trevor McPhee (William Hurt), a scoundrel on the run who records his surrounds for his father’s science project in Australia – a technology that records people’s sight and even their dreams. As Claire chases Trevor from Paris to Berlin, Lisbon, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo, San Francisco and finally the land down under, she too is followed by the author Eugene (Sam Neill) who wishes to record her story.
We’re proud to present the coveted Director’s Cut – complete with an essential ten-minute intermission – of Wim Wenders’ immense passion project, the longest film we’ve ever shown to date. While that may seem like a challenge, we see it as the rare chance to fully immerse yourself in Wenders’ ambitious vision which was initially cut to pieces at the behest of financiers. Photographed across eleven countries by the legendary Robby Müller (mostly in Australia we might add), this gorgeously restored, star-studded, cinema-drunk road trip goes as far as meditating on image-making itself and all its boons and banes, truly cementing it as Wim Wenders’ magnum opus.