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Evening Standard
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Nick Howells

The End review: all down to the bunker for Joshua Oppenheimer’s bananas, post-apocalyptic musical

When Agnetha and Frida sang “Thank you for the music” back in 1977, they probably weren’t counting on the untamed tones of Tilda Swinton and George MacKay warbling away in a post-apocalyptic bunker.

Frankly, almost 50 years later, even those familiar with the unorthodoxies of film-maker Joshua Oppenheimer (no relation to the bomb-maker) might not have predicted this peculiar musical. The director himself included.

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