100
San Francisco Chronicle by David Lewis
In a deceptively low-key manner, Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen has beautifully crafted one of the most provocative movies of the year.
Into Eternity
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- Denmark,
- Finland,
- Sweden,
- Italy
- 2010
- · 75m
Director
Michael Madsen
Cast
Carl Reinhold Bråkenhjelm,
Michael Madsen,
Wendla Paile,
Esko Roukola,
Mikael Jensen
Genre
Documentary
Every day, all over the world, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and societal changes. In Finland, the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years.
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91
IndieWire by Eric Kohn
Although Madsen's survey of warning strategies has an aimless structure prone to repetition, he creates an effective mood that transcends his time-travel gimmick and eventually becomes topical.
75
New York Post by V.A. Musetto
Madsen 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.
75
The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias
Madsen casts doubt on the notion that this Pandora's box will never be opened, either by some cataclysmic event, like another Ice Age, or drilling by future generations who may not be aware of Onkalo, or even able to decipher warnings of its contents. Something terrible seems likely to happen-just not today.
70
Boxoffice Magazine
The film reaches way beyond the usual activist crowd by making itself as formally compelling as it is tightly argued.
70
Village Voice by J. Hoberman
It is meant to boggle the mind and inspire awe-and it does.
70
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
There is something apocalyptically awful about Onkalo, to be sure, but the impulse behind it is noble, and the installation itself has an undeniable grandeur.
70
Boxoffice Magazine by Vadim Rizov
The film reaches way beyond the usual activist crowd by making itself as formally compelling as it is tightly argued.
60
The New Yorker by Anthony Lane
Most important, given that Onkalo will hide and bury just some of Finland's waste, what about everyone else's? [14 & 21 Feb. 2011, p. 139]
60
Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf
Into Eternity has the grandeur of ominous suggestion, but might have benefitted from a director more creatively unbound-an Errol Morris ready to play around at the end of the world.
60
Empire
A captivating, and sometimes alarming, exposé of the business end of nuclear power. Watch as part of a behind-the-sofa double bill with Countdown To Zero.
60
Empire by Sam Toy
A captivating, and sometimes alarming, exposé of the business end of nuclear power. Watch as part of a behind-the-sofa double bill with Countdown To Zero.
40
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Unfortunately, Madsen (a Danish filmmaker, not the American actor) has an approach to this rich topic that is repetitive and simplistic, as if he wasn't quite sure how to fill out even a brief feature.
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