Roy Andersson
Date of Birth: 31 Mar 1943
Country: Sweden
Biography: Roy Arne Lennart Andersson (born 31 March 1943) is a Swedish film director, best known for A Swedish Love Story (1970), About Endlessness (2019) and his "Living trilogy," which includes Songs from the Second Floor (2000), You, the Living (2007) and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014).
Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Actor), 12 (Director), 11 (Writer)
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Composed of a series of immaculately staged tableaux, Songs From the Second Floor is a stylized black comedy-turned-nightmare. (Film Forum)
Two idealistic teenagers fall in love for the first time in this romantic drama. They try to remain hopeful in a cynical world of adults that discourage them. Their parents are weary from life's constant problems and fail to take the young couple seriously when they speak of love and hope for the future. (All Movie Guide)
You, the Living is a film about humankind, its greatness and its baseness, joy and sorrow, its self-confidence and anxiety, its desire to love and be loved. (imdb)
Härlig är jorden (1991) - Short Film
A plain, ordinary man tells us about his work as a real-estate broker, his dead father, his ordinary home and so on in a naturalistic voice, lacking any emotions. (imdb)
In a minor town the morose manager is primarily responsible for the bad atmosphere of a restaurant. But central for the plot are three persons: a male waiter who is never named (here called W), the female waiter Anna, and "the count", a self-invented nickname by a man cleaning plates. The count is skilled in making others do what he wants... (imdb)
Something Happened (1987) - Short Film
A short semi-decoumentary about the discovery of AIDS and its effect on society. (Heer)
An in-the-face documentary in the height of the 1968 student rebellions. (imdb)
Andersson captures the essence of an easy-breezy weekend shared by two working-class lovers. Bernt meets his sweet-as-pie girlfriend, Marianne, as she finishes her shift at the bakery, and takes her to visit friends on the outskirts of town. The girls horse around, the guys prepare the garden for winter, and everyone goes for a brisk walk, leaving poor Marianne in bed with a cold the following day. In Swedish; English subtitles. (MoMA)
Hämta en cykel (1968) - Short Film
Even in this early short, Andersson proved to be a master at portraying the drama of the quotidian. A minimalistic study of waking up on the wrong side of the bed, To Fetch a Bike shows two young lovers getting ready for a new day. Before the boyfriend can head to work, he must first fetch his bike from the attic with the help of his genuinely grumpy, monosyllabic girlfriend. (MoMA)
Besöka sin son (1967) - Short Film
Over the course of a meal, the father of two adult children has an increasingly difficult time keeping his opinions to himself and hiding his disapproval of his son's lifestyle--not to mention his mustache! (MoMA)
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. (tmdb.com)
With ABOUT ENDLESSNESS, Roy Andersson adds to his cinematic oeuvre with a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality.