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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