“I saw a man who had lost his way, I saw a man who was begging for his life,” describes the narrator, and these words could apply to any of the lonely hearts and lost souls that parade before our eyes, like exhibits in a tatty museum of human curiosities. An oddball comedy of devilish wit, which makes the humdrum seem unique and the mundane otherworldly, offering a sad but tender antidote to estrangement and disorientation. A series of lingering vignettes, in cafés, bars, train stations, apartments, and offices, made up of pale human buoys, yearning for our empathy and understanding.
About Endlessness
Om det oändliga
60th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Roy Andersson
- Script: Roy Andersson
- Cinematography: Gergely Pálos
- Editing: Johan Carlsson, Kalle Boman, Roy Andersson
- Sound: Robert Hefter
- Actors: Martin Serner, Jessica Louthander, Tatiana Delaunay, Anders Hellström, Jan-Eje Ferling, Thore Flygel, Bengt Bergius
- Production: Roy Andersson Film Produktion
- Producers: Pernilla Sandström, Johan Carlsson
- Co-production: 4 1⁄2 Fiksjon, Essential Films
- Co-producers: Philippe Bober, Håkon Øverås
- Costumes: Julia Tegström, Isabel Sjöstrand, Sandra Parment, Amanda Ribrant
- Sets: Anders Hellström, Frida E. Elmström,
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway
- Production Year: 2019
- Duration: 76´
- Distribution in Greece: Ama Films
- Contact: Coproduction Office, sales@coproductionoffice.eu
- Awards/Distinctions: Best Director (Silver Lion) – Venice FF 2019
Roy Andersson
Roy Arne Lennart Andersson was born in 1943 in Gothenberg. A graduate of the Swedish Film Academy, Andersson’s early work was much influenced by the free-spirited, youth-inflected and shortlived Czech New Wave best represented by Milos Forman and Jiri Menzel. Like the exuberant Czech films Andersson watched at the time, his own student works were also about relationships between young people and authority figures – parents and teachers – and like the films Andersson would go on to make, their narrative tension builds from miscommunication and a robust sense of the absurd.
Filmography
1970 En kärlekshistoria | A Swedish Love Story
1991 Härlig är jorden | World of Glory (short)
2000 Sånger från andra våningen | Songs from the Second Floor
2007 Du levande | You, the Living
2014 En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron | A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
2019 Om det oändliga | About Endlessness
1991 Härlig är jorden | World of Glory (short)
2000 Sånger från andra våningen | Songs from the Second Floor
2007 Du levande | You, the Living
2014 En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron | A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
2019 Om det oändliga | About Endlessness
