November 8, 2026
Landscapes of Ending Review
Landscapes of Ending is the latest documentary by Italian film maker Francesco Mattuzzi.
This feature documentary had its premiere this week at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence.
Festival dei Popoli is the oldest documentary film festival in Europe.
Landscapes of Ending is a film that interweaves the themes of longevity, life and death.
This is the first film to integrate the futuristic 3D-printed Sarco capsule with the topic of longevity.
Since shooting this film, other documentaries have filmed with Philip Nitschke on precisely this topic but Landscapes of Ending was first.
Landscapes interweaves the four story lines of:
- Philip Nitschke’s 3D-printed Sarco
- Moral & personal challenges faced by 76-year old Tuscan woman Sabina as she seeks to use the Sarco
- Friendship that develops between Sabina & her friend Rosa who has polar opposite views on death to Sabina
- Longevity study of hairless mole rats by British biologist Chris Faulkes whose research shows the remarkably long & healthy lives of these small rodents &, finally …
- Lifestyles of the ‘young-elderly’ at Sun City West in Arizona in the US
This 90-minute documentary makes you think.
Much is left to the viewer to decide as these stories are intermingled in a way that is immediate and personal to each and every viewer.
The one point to shine through is a profound respect for individual liberty and autonomy, regardless of where you stand on either the live-forever debate or the right to die.
Exit wishes Francesco every success with this documentary.
Landscapes of Ending is an important contribution for all that is left unsaid about these most important questions of human existence.
Exit will publish future screening details as soon as they become known.
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