Roy Andersson — Director (8)

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To Fetch a Bike (1968)
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Roy Andersson actor: Pierre Bené / Monica Löf
other title: Hämta en cykel
Roy Andersson's short movies focus on working class and youth daily life, capturing and portraying a small slice of his characters' day.

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Something Has Happened (1987)
Någonting har hänt WikiData IMDb TMDB
Roy Andersson actor: Klas-Gösta Olsson / Anne Tubin …
other title: Something Happened / Quelque chose est arrivé …
As the AIDS epidemic was spreading in 1987, the Swedish government commissioned Roy Andersson to make an educational film about the disease. In these twenty or so monotone scenes, Andersson criticizes the medical community for its dehumanizing and racist tendencies when researching HIV and AIDS.

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A Swedish Love Story (1970)
En kärlekshistoria WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Roy Andersson actor: Rolf Sohlman / Ann-Sofie Kylin …
other title: Eine schwedische Liebesgeschichte / Una historia de amor sueca …
The puppy love of two teenagers is set against a backdrop of adults struggling with their own lives. As a couple in love, they don't care about anything but themselves and seem totally unaware about everything that surrounds them.

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You, the Living (2007)
Du levande
Roy Andersson actor: Håkan Angser / Eric Bäckman …
other title: Vocês, Os Vivos / Das jüngste Gewitter …
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

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About Endlessness (2019)
Om det oändliga
Roy Andersson actor: Jan-Eje Ferling / Kristina Ekmark …
other title: Sulla infinitezza / Om det uendelige …
A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron
Roy Andersson actor: Holger Andersson / Nisse Vestblom …
other title: Un piccione seduto su un ramo riflette sull'esistenza / En Due Sad På En Gren Og Funderede Over Tilværelsen …
An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.