About Endlessness (Om det oändliga) first publsihed by VODzilla.co Despite its title, Roy Andersson‘s About Endlessness (Om det oändliga) comes with the strong sense of an ending. Announced as the great Swedish mannerist director’s swansong, it sits awkwardly as the unofficial fourth part of Andersson’s loose ‘Living trilogy’. For just like his Songs From The…
A Swedish Love Story (En kärlekshistoria) first published by EyeforFilm In 1970, Erich Segal’s novel Love Story was the top-selling work of fiction in the US, while in the same year Arthur Hiller’s film adaptation (with a screenplay by Segal) was the number one box office attraction. So when En Kärlekshistoria (literally ‘A Love Story’)…
A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence first published by FilmDivider Roy Andersson‘s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting On Existence (En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron) opens, appropriately enough, in a reflective hall of mirrors. A shabby-looking man moves about the displays in a natural history museum, looking at an…
You, the Living (Du Levande) review first published by Film4 Synopsis: Roy Andersson’s fourth feature uses bleakly comic tableaux to illustrate humankind’s everyday quest for happiness, if not the meaning of life itself. Review: “Be pleased then, you the living, in your delightfully warmed bed, before Lethe’s ice-cold wave will lick your escaping foot.” It is…
Songs From The Second Floor first published by EyeforFilm “Everything has its day,” says the CEO Lennart (Bengt CW Carlsson), concealed (but for his bare feet) beneath a sunbed, to his flustered sub-manager Pelle (Torbjörn Fahlström) in the opening scene of Roy Andersson’s Songs From The Second Floor. “This is a new day and age, Pelle…