Line #1 Creator/RoyAndersson


1	Roy Andersson is a Swedish film director, known by his dry, at times frozen black comedies full of wry humour and misanthropic observations. He achieved early acclaim with 1970's A Swedish Love Story. Then his career as a film director went on hiatus although he became renowned for his work in advertising. Already in XXI century he made a comeback with a trilogy of films released in 2000, 2007 and 2014.
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5	!!Filmography
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7	* En kärlekshistoria (A Swedish Love Story 1970)
8	* Giliap (1975)
9	* Sånger från andra våningen (Songs from the Second Floor 2000)
10	* Du levande (You, the Living 2007)
11	* ''Film/APigeonSatOnABranchReflectingOnExistence'' (En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron 2014)
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14	!! Tropes
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16	* BlackComedy: Of a very dry and static kind.
17	* BreakingTheFourthWall: ''You, the Living'' and some of his commercials feature characters speaking to the camera.
18	* CapitalismIsBad: The director rejects this system.
19	* ChekhovsGunman: Used frequently within his [[LeaveTheCameraRunning long scenes]]. If there is an extra standing in the background in a scene (often in another room, but viewable), chances are they become important or at least have some text until the end of the scene.
20	* CrapsackWorld: Generally prominent, but especially upfront in ''Songs from the Second Floor'' and ''Film/APigeonSatOnABranchReflectingOnExistence''.
21	* ComedicSociopathy: A lot of the humor in his films can best be described as schadenfreude. Taken up to eleven with his insurance commercials which basically just show things [[GoneHorriblyWrong Going Horribly Wrong]] in unpredictable ways.
22	* DisproportionateRetribution: In a dream of a character in ''You, the Living'', he is [[HighVoltageDeath sentenced to death]] for breaking expensive tableware.
23	* DreamSequence: Two in ''You the Living'', one in ''A Pigeon Sat On a Branch Reflecting on Existence''.
24	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Inverted as ''A Swedish Love Story'' was his most straight movie.
25	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Used frequently throughout all of his films.
26	* HumansAreBastards: His films are generally pretty misanthropic.
27	* KafkaKomedy: All over the place, especially notable with Sam and Jonothan in ''Film/APigeonSatOnABranchReflectingOnExistence''.
28	* KarmaHoudini: The protagonist of ''World of Glory'' being this after UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo is the main theme of that ShortFilm. There's also a NaziGrandpa in ''Songs from the Second Floor'' who certainly counts as this.
29	* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Many a scene in his movies are not cut after the action stops, the camera lingers for some time.
30	* NoEnding: His films don't go out of their way to give any kind of resolution of the problems and conflicts portrayed.
31	* RandomEventsPlot: Usually, the scenes of his films share hardly more than a theme and their setting. There are a handful of recurring characters within each respective narrative, but even they don't feature in every scene by a long shot. His films can feel like [[AnthologyFilm Anthologies]] because of this.
32	* {{Trilogy}}: ''Songs from the Second Floor'' (2000), ''You, the Living'' (2007) and ''A Pigeon Sat On a Branch Reflecting on Existence'' (2014) form an informal one.

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