Roy Andersson — Playwright (5)

Movie

A Swedish Love Story (1970)
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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.

Movie

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.

Movie

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.

Movie

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.