About Endlessness

  • 76'
  • Sweden
  • 2019

After every new Roy Andersson, we look forward to the next – and so far we haven't been disappointed. The distinctive style that makes every image created by this Swedish master stand out among thousands was created somewhere during the more than two decades between the financial flop of his second feature film Giliap (1975) and the artistic triumph of his third, Songs from the Second Floor (2000). Melancholy, empathetic vignettes that present the comic absurdity and fragility of hankering mankind and his corporeal existence in painterly, dimly lit, frequently spectacular studio settings with obsessive precision and framing.

The with good reason existentially titled About Endlessness follows this familiar procedure. Like a Scheherazade, we hear a voice-over telling us what she is seeing: a priest who has lost his faith; a rain-drenched father tying his daughter's shoelaces; a defeated army slogging through the cold.

Director
Roy Andersson
Countries of production
Sweden, Germany, Norway
Year
2019
Festival Edition
IFFR 2020
Length
76'
Medium
DCP
Original title
Om det oändliga
Language
Swedish
Producers
Pernilla Sandström, Johan Carlsson
Production Company
Roy Andersson Filmproduktion AB
Sales
Coproduction Office
Screenplay
Roy Andersson
Cinematography
Gergely Pálos
Editor
Johan Carlsson, Kalle Boman, Roy Andersson
Production Design
Anders Hellström, Frida E. Elmström, Nicklas Nilsson
Cast
Martin Serner, Jessica Louthander, Tatiana Delaunay, Anders Hellström, Jan Eje Ferling, Bengt Bergius, Thore Flygel
Local Distributor
Cinemien
Director
Roy Andersson
Countries of production
Sweden, Germany, Norway
Year
2019
Festival Edition
IFFR 2020
Length
76'
Medium
DCP
Original title
Om det oändliga
Language
Swedish
Producers
Pernilla Sandström, Johan Carlsson
Production Company
Roy Andersson Filmproduktion AB
Sales
Coproduction Office
Screenplay
Roy Andersson
Cinematography
Gergely Pálos
Editor
Johan Carlsson, Kalle Boman, Roy Andersson
Production Design
Anders Hellström, Frida E. Elmström, Nicklas Nilsson
Cast
Martin Serner, Jessica Louthander, Tatiana Delaunay, Anders Hellström, Jan Eje Ferling, Bengt Bergius, Thore Flygel
Local Distributor
Cinemien