Swedish cult director Roy Andersson couples his iconic visual style (stationary shots, a monochromatic palette of grays and greens) with a meticulous eye for composition to yield a brilliant succession of dreamlike tableaux: a bride and her electric-guitar-playing groom sail along in a house moving like a train; a distraught man complains of his financial woes while his wife tries to make love to him; a drunken woman shouts, “No one understands me” to a bar full of silent patrons, and a man waiting in line to buy a train ticket changes queues repeatedly, to no advantage. Andersson brings a blast of distinctive Nordic humor to our universal woes. Seattle Times: “Essentially indescribable, it can be quite funny if you’re susceptible to Andersson’s curious way of capturing the human comedy.” Sponsored by Salaam Boutique. 95 minutes, in Swedish with subtitles. Film review
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