There actually is a pigeon here, in the beginning: a stuffed one, therewith past wondering; some zombie-like-looking human gawks at it in seemingly dull incomprehension. The film’s anti-heroes, a pair of salesmen specialized in fun novelties like vampire teeth (with extra-long fangs!) are met by similar gazes wherever they go... The title of Roy Andersson’s latest masterpiece is inspired by Pieter Breughel the Elder’s 1556 The Hunters in the Snow: The maestro wondered what the birds in the painting see, might make of those strange creatures we call humans, their (mis)deeds and (mis)adventures. Read: Andersson tries to look at life on Earth as if it were a civilization three solar systems away. To best do this, he once again build himself eerie, hyperrealist studio-reproductions of our world that looks and feels alien –a zombie-land explored one tableau barely vivant after the other. The end offers some of the most depressingly true sights contemporary cinema has on offer. Only the kindhearted and hopeful will survive. OM
Section: PanoramaD, G: R. Andersson
F: I. Borbás, G. Pálos
E: A. Strauss
DA: U. Jonsson, J. Tegström, N. Nilsson, S. Parment, I. Sjöstrand
S: E. Baumung
M: H. Jazzar, G. Sundberg
P: P. Sandström
PE: S. Nagel, I. Wiegand
CP: Roy Andersson Filmproduktion
H. Andersson, N. Westblom, C. Larsson, V. Gyllenberg, L. Törnros
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He was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1967. His filmography includes the shorts Something Happened (1987) and World of Glory (1991), as well as the features A Swedish Love Story (1970), Giliap (1975), Songs from the Second Floor (2000) and You, the Living (2007), all of which were screened in a retrospective of his work at the 10 th Bafici.
05 May 2015
25 April 2015
25 April 2015
