The subject of "Into Eternity" is Onkalo, the Finnish government's attempt to solve its nuclear waste problem by carving a vast, 4km-deep bunker out of solid rock to bury it in for at least the next 100,000 years. However, the film's focus is bigger. Instead of looking for cover-ups and conspiracies at the site, Madsen uses the existence of Onkalo to create a hauntingly beautiful meditation on the mortality of our civilization, asking the question: what do we say about oursel... (Full plot summary below)
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The subject of "Into Eternity" is Onkalo, the Finnish government's attempt to solve its nuclear waste problem by carving a vast, 4km-deep bunker out of solid rock to bury it in for at least the next 100,000 years. However, the film's focus is bigger. Instead of looking for cover-ups and conspiracies at the site, Madsen uses the existence of Onkalo to create a hauntingly beautiful meditation on the mortality of our civilization, asking the question: what do we say about ourselves when we create something that will outlast everything we understand? That may be the last thing that remains of our society?
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| San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisIn a deceptively low-key manner, Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen has beautifully crafted one of the most provocative movies of the year. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirMore like a troubling dream, or outtakes from an abandoned David Lynch project, than a conventional documentary. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsMadsen, whose symmetrical compositions and slo-mo shots of uniformed workers have a quality of Kubrickian sci-fi, frames the film as a message to the future. |
| Slant MagazineLauren WissotWatching the film is akin to having a totally immersive, video game-like experience, a journey best described as Lord of the Rings meets 2001: A Space Odyssey. |
| New York TimesA.O. ScottThere is something apocalyptically awful about Onkalo, to be sure, but the impulse behind it is noble, and the installation itself has an undeniable grandeur. |
| Denver PostLisa KennedyDirected by Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen with grace and deep curiosity, "Into Eternity" is better than timely. |
| sbs.com.auSimon FosterMadsen's ominous work is reminiscent, stylistically, of Kubrick's masterworks 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and The Shining (1980) in its visual precision and chilly environs. |
| Playback:stlSarah BoslaughInto Eternity may be the most honest, as well as the most beautiful, documentary you've ever seen. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoMadsen interviews experts galore, but few seem to know what's going to happen with this project in the next decade -- let alone 100,000 years. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsA riveting documentary: as spooky as the early scenes of 2001 in its glacial camera-prowlings around "Onkalo", a deep-mined waste bin for nuclear garbage and the probable future of disposal for our planet. |
