Roy Andersson : Endgame

The astonishing career of Roy Andersson reflects the radical personality of an extraordinary artist. After directing two contrasting first feature films in the 1970s, A Swedish Love Story (awarded at the Berlinale) and "Giliap ", he disappeared from the world of cinema for almost twenty-five years. During this period, he devoted himself to a career in advertising, founded his own production company, Studio 24, and made a few short films. And all this time, Andersson seems to have matured the work that has earned him international recognition since 2000: from the trilogy of the living to About Endlessness, four films with an immediately recognizable style, whose skilfully staged tableaux erect an absurd and grating chronicle of our all-too human world.