A story centered on a pair of traveling salesmen who peddle novelty items.
If Chris Morris had grown up in Sweden watching Jacques Tati and Ingmar Bergman films, he might be making films like this. Based on Andersson’s mordantly funny observations about the human condition, the pigeon has it pretty good.
One of the strangest films you’ll see this (or any) year, it unsettles, bores, elates and amuses in equal measure. Not for everyone, but there’s plenty to chew on.
Modern life may indeed be rubbish but Andersson communicates that sentiment with a certain amount of sorrow and an awful lot of style.
What an incredible film-maker Andersson is – he has created an entirely unique epic movie-cycle that has to be seen to be believed.
The film is perceptive in its depiction of human behaviour.
Caps off one of the greatest trilogies ever made.
he results are often very droll, but the cumulative effect is strangely poignant, underscoring the vibrancy of life, but also the despair that comes from passively shuffling through it.
Roy Andersson’s surreal black comedy moves from hilarious to horrifying in the conclusion of his existential trilogy.
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