Person
Roy Andersson
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Mar 31, 1943
- From
- Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Roy Arne Lennart Andersson is a Swedish film director, best known for his distinctive style of absurdist humor and melancholic depictions of human life. His personal style is characterized by long takes, and stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and grotesque. Over his career Andersson earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival. Andersson spent much of his professional life working on advertisement spots, directing over 400 commercials and two short films; directing six feature-length films in six decades. He made his feature film debut with A Swedish Love Story (1970) followed by Giliap (1975). Anderson received the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize for Songs from the Second Floor (2000). His film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) won the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion. He other notable films include You, the Living (2007), and About Endlessness (2019). Imdb Mini Bio By ; yusufpiskin
Images
Credits
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Palme
Being a Human Person
Room 1112
Life at Any Cost
The Andersson Brothers
Being Bo Widerberg
Obsessions from the Second Floor
Tomorrow's Another Day
Citizen Schein
Året var 1970
Roy Andersson's People
You Do the Best You Can
The Greatness of the Small Man
With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
Live, Human... as Long as You Possibly Can!
På genomresa - en intervju med Roy Andersson
You, the Living