Director: Roy Andersson
77 Mins / 2019 / Sweden/Germany/Norway/France, Subtitles

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WINNER - SILVER LION, 76TH VENICE FILM FESTIVAL - BEST DIRECTION

This is a wonderful chance to watch on the big screen this dreamlike reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, splendour and banality, gently guided by our Scheherazade-esque narrator.

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.

Simultaneously an ode and a lament, this is a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

""The most ecstatically joyous thing he’s ever filmed, as three young women break into spontaneous dance outside a café. How great was it? Reader, I wept."" - David Jenkins, Little White Lies"

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