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\u201cThe people are all pale as mushrooms, blending in with the ashen cityscapes, sterile white rooms, and drab, half-empty restaurants. Stuck in meticulously composed dioramas, they enact miniature comedies and tragedies\u2014sometimes it is hard to say which\u2014filled with deadpan humor and haunting bleakness. We could only be in a Roy Andersson movie.\u201d\n\nImogen Sara Smith wrote these words about Andersson\u2019s latest, About Endlessness, which graced the cover of Film Comment\u2019s May-June 2020 issue. The global pandemic was just starting to take hold back then, and the Swedish filmmaker\u2019s work seemed to offer an uncannily apt vision of life in 2020. With About Endlessness finally opening in theaters, FC editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute welcomed Imogen and another long-time FC contributor, Jonathan Romney, for a conversation about the film and its place in Andersson\u2019s utterly distinctive filmography.\n\nDon\u2019t forget to sign up for the Film Comment Letter, launching on May 6! It\u2019s a free digital newsletter that will deliver original writing by Film Comment contributors directly to your inbox every Thursday. Sign-up today at filmcomment.com and receive a free digital download of a Film Comment back issue of your choice.