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Into Eternity: A Film for the Future

This hiding place should never be disturbed.

2010 · 1h 15m · N/A Documentary
Directed by Michael Madsen

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Overview

Every day, the world over, 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 to 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 as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.

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Into Eternity is a documentary that may look like a science fiction movie, but it ends up more of a horror film.

Tom Long, Detroit News
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Madsen, 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.

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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In a deceptively low-key manner, Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen has beautifully crafted one of the most provocative movies of the year.

David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
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Directed by Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen with grace and deep curiosity, "Into Eternity" is better than timely.

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
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Into Eternity provides few solutions regarding the estimated 200,000 to 300,000 tons of N-waste lying around the world, but it does alert us to potentially devastating consequences. Will we heed the warning?

V.A. Musetto, New York Post

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