À cause des filles..?
A wrecked wedding party makes the guests remember past follies of desire and love. They don't make cultivated comedies like this anymore.
100'
France
IFFR 2020
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.
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
A contemporary film programme about the gaze of the old filmmaker, showing that the creative urge still burns as brightly as 50 years ago.
Read more about this programmeA wrecked wedding party makes the guests remember past follies of desire and love. They don't make cultivated comedies like this anymore.
100'
France
IFFR 2020
In his characteristic style, Andersson at his existential, succinct best: everything that makes life human, in an hour and fifteen minutes.
76'
Sweden
IFFR 2020
Yanis Varoufakis vs. EU financial establishment. A Kammerspiel-style classical political thriller that leaves no doubts about the good and the bad.
124'
France
IFFR 2020