Roy Andersson focus
Overview of films
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Songs from the Second Floor
In 47 scenes, Roy Andersson exposes the absurdity of modern man. Awarded the Grand Prix de Jury at Cannes.
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Obsessions du deuxième étage
Documentary about film-maker in focus Roy Andersson and his films, by one of the editors of the French magazine ‘Réparages’.
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A Swedish Love Story
Début film by Andersson from 1969 was a great success at the time, and is still a vital, sharp and captivating story about juvenile love and the terri
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Lördagen den 5.10
In 1967, at the age of 24, Andersson was admitted to the filmschool of the Swedist Film Institute, founded in 1963, run by Harry Schein and obviously influenced by Ingmar Bergman. Andersson went his own way and that resulted in him working on the famous Den vita sporten in the spring of 1968. In the […]
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The Greatness of the Small Man
Documentary about the approach and the ideas of film-maker in focus Andersson, made by his brother Kjell.
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World of Glory
Portrait of a world that is anything but glorious. A series of tableaux with a famous nightmarish opening scene. First film in the project ’90 minutes
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Den vita sporten
Committed film by a Swedish collective (including Roy Andersson) motivated by the David-Cup tennis tournament between Sweden and Zimbabwe in 1968.
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Giliap
Andersson’s second work is a stylised film about Giliap, who works as a waiter in a dubious hotel and becomes entangled between his love for the beaut
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In Absentia
Inspired by Stockhausen’s Zwei Paare: the mental portrait of a woman who continues to write incessantly to her absent lover.
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Something Happened
Andersson’s vision on the AIDS epidemic was not entirely what the commissioners of the film had hoped for.