Roy Andersson is a Swedish film director known for tableau-like, fixed-camera compositions, deadpan black humour and surreal vignettes. His work includes the internationally recognised trilogy culminating in A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence.

Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014). Notable films include Songs From the Second Floor (2000), You, The Living (2007), and About Endlessness (2019).

Two reviews on DeBaser praise Roy Andersson's cold, tender black comedy and tableau-like filmmaking. Reviewers highlight recurring themes of human absurdity, melancholy and fleeting beauty. The films employ fixed-camera tableaux and surreal vignettes to provoke both laughter and sorrow.

For:Arthouse film fans, students of cinema, and lovers of dark, existential comedy.

 Scraps, sketches, fragments of humanity, from those who float, hovering over the ruins of past beauty, to those who spend their ordinary, indistinguishable daily life.

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 Andersson's approach is typical of comedy, a cold comedy about human senselessness, where brief sad, tragic, or melancholic sketches (often with a fixed camera, but watch out for those occasional, imperceptible lateral tracking shots!) fit into one another in a surreal tour de force that inevitably leads the viewer to empathize with this desperate human fauna on the brink of oblivion.

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