It might be a surreal expertise, to be alive after the world has ended. A world chances are you’ll or could not have performed an enormous function in ending. However who can say? Solely the folks left alive within the trailer for The Finish, the brand new film musical from Neon, which options Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon as they sing their means by Joshua Oppenheimer’s narrative characteristic debut.
A brand new trailer for the well-reviewed pageant movie was revealed on Monday, November 4th, and it’s establishing a daring and quirky premise forward of its December sixth, 2024 theatrical debut.
What’s The Finish About and Who Stars in It?
The movie, which additionally stars George MacKay, Moses Ingram, Bronagh Gallagher, Tim McInnerny, Lennie James, and Michael Shannon alongside Swinton, facilities on a particularly rich household who’ve been residing underground for some years after the tip of the world. An finish that they might or could not have had a hand in precipitating (spoiler alert: they’re undoubtedly instantly concerned). Issues get turned the other way up within the bunker when Moses Ingram’s character, Woman, reveals up seemingly out of nowhere and begins to create cracks on the planet arrange by Swinton and Shannon for his or her household’s safety.
Neon additionally launched some promotional photographs in tandem with the trailer launch:
The movie made its debut on the Telluride Movie Pageant to combined evaluations from critics (and a largely optimistic one from our personal Jericho Tadeo on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant), who discovered the story gutsy and evocative, however left a number of viewers on the fence in regards to the musical facet.
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A musical in regards to the finish of the world, The Finish is a novel expertise that marks documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer’s narrative debut.
Nonetheless, who would not love an enormous, daring swing relating to the films? Significantly in a non-superhero sense. And, frankly, the world may do with just a few extra film musicals that are not primarily based on preexisting mental property. The official synopsis for The Finish is as follows:
Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mom, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, the place they battle to take care of hope and a way of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of day by day life–until the arrival of a stranger, Woman, upends their joyful routine. Son, a naïve twenty-something who has by no means seen the skin world, is fascinated by the newcomer, and all of a sudden the fragile bonds of blind optimism which have held this rich clan collectively start to fray. As tensions rise, their seemingly idyllic existence begins to crumble, with long-repressed emotions of regret and resentment threatening to destroy the household’s delicate steadiness. However their reckoning with tough truths additionally factors to a unique means ahead, one primarily based on acceptance, love, and a capability for change.
Oppenheimer co-wrote the movie with Rasmus Heisterberg, a Danish screenwriter recognized for his work on 2009’s The Woman with the Dragon Tattoo and 2012’s A Royal Affair. Oppenheimer himself is an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, recognized for the 2012 movie, The Act of Killing, and 2014’s The Look of Silence. The songs have been written in tandem by Joshua Schmidt — who did the music — and Oppenheimer, who wrote the lyrics.
The Finish
hits American theaters on December 6, 2024.