Focus Forever Young: The End of It 

A star-studded sci-fi satire in which immortality has become boring, and a 250-year-old artist finds new inspiration in the idea of the end of it all.

Rebecca Hall, Gael García Bernal and Noomi Rapace revel in the absurdity of Spanish director Maria Martínez Bayona’s darkly comic feature debut. Hall, in particular, is magnificent as Claire, an artist who has lost both her creative spark and her zest for life in an unnervingly sanitised future, but who, as she reaches yet another milestone birthday, finds renewed purpose in the provocative idea that it is time to die. With pitch-black humour and razor-sharp wit, The End of It asks whether life has any meaning at all if it never comes to an end.

Johan Blomqvist

Title: The End Of It

Director: Maria Martnez Bayona

Country: Storbritannien/Spanien/Norge