Last and First Men

First and last directorial work from the late Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson—whose moody blending of traditional orchestration with electronic elements adds much to films like Sicario, Arrival, and Mandy—is a hypnotic collection of images and narration adapted from Olaf Stapledon’s 1930 novel, which describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years.