- 'Time is nature's way of preventing everything from happening at once,' Einstein once said. But is time really as simple as we think when we count the hours and minutes? Peter Mettler is never afraid of letting his films strive for the impossible. With 'The End of Time', he has created his most neck-breakingly ambitious film to date, where quantum physics, buddhism and speculative philosophy are just some of the components in the overall equation. And then it is about something as basic as time. Basic, at least until we in the very first scene are invited all the way into the infamous, 27 km long particle accelerator in Switzerland, which many feared would create a black hole - an overwhelming monument, which most of all looks like something out of 'Star Trek'. From here, the 'time travel' continues to a volcano on Hawaii, where the red-hot lava has solidified over time into sculptural formations, and on to the ghost town of Detroit, where time has stood still in more than one sense since the end of the 20th century. But even if the scope is intergalactic and its philosophical resonance is staggering, 'The End of Time' is also a very human reminder of the fact that time will probably continue without us - but that it nevertheless ends with ourselves.

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