Victor Sjöström was an actor and a director, a legend of Swedish Cinema and an important name in film history. He did his finest work during the silent film era, living in Hollywood for seven years.
Roy Andersson’s new oeuvre i a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality. Inconsequential moments take on the same significance as historical events: a couple floats over a war-torn Cologne; on the way to a birthday party, a father stops to tie his daughter’s shoelaces in the pouring rain; teenage girls dance outside a cafe; a defeated army marches to a prisoner of war camp.
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