Cambridge Film Festival 2010 Brochure

Friday 17 September, 4.00pm | Tuesday 21 September, 3.30pm
A SWEDISH LOVE STORY (CFF PG)
(EN KÄRLEKSHISTORIA)
Director: Roy Andersson. Starring: Ann-Sofie Kylin, Rolf Sohlman, Anita Lindblom.
Sweden 1970. 115 mins. Swedish with English subtitles.
Pär (Sohlman) and Annika (Kylin) dig each other but heaven
forbid that they should actually talk about it! The non-verbal
nuances of teenage love have rarely been captured as well as
in A SWEDISH LOVE STORY. At face value Andersson’s summer of
romance is miles away from his later features. But trouble lies
in store for the lovebirds in the form of their wildly ill-suited
families. As the affair deepens the parents will have to meet,
steering the deeply-realised characters on a collision course.
Winner of awards at the Berlin Film Festival in 1970, Andersson
took inspiration from Czech directors such as Milos Forman,
Jiri Menzel and Evald Schrom for his debut.
Print source: Studio 24 Distribution
Sunday 19 September 7.00pm Queen’s Building, Emmanuel
college Tuesday 21 September, 8.30pm
SONGS FROM THE SECOND
FLOOR (15)
(SÅNGER FRÅN ANDRA VÅNINGEN)
Director: Roy Andersson. Starring: Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Bengt C.W.
Carlsson. Sweden 2000. Swedish with English subtitles.
A soot-charred man riding the metro suffers internally as
his fellow passengers erupt into an operatic warble. It’s
unforgettable scenes like this that make SONGS FROM THE
SECOND FLOOR one of the key films of the last decade. Roy
Andersson’s succession of vignettes simply stuns. The Cannes
Film Festival was no exception giving it the Special Jury
Prize. Constructed from seemingly disconnected single-takes
Scandinavian farce gradually slips before millennial angst
as a city disintegrates into disaster. There’s a plot in there
somewhere but you can simply spend hours gawping at the
mute-coloured set-ups.
There are extraordinary visions of lost souls adrift in
worlds that I can only describe as resplendent with vivid,
hyperreal drabness. PETER BRADSHAW, The Guardian
Print source: Studio 24 Distribution
Thursday 23 September, 5.00pm
YOU, THE LIVING (15)
(DU LEVANDE)
Director: Roy Andersson. Starring: Jessika Lundberg, Elisabet Helander, Björn
Englund. Sweden/Germany/France/Denmark/Norway 2007. Swedish with English
Subtitles.
Taking his title from a quote by the German writer Goethe,
Andersson followed up SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR with
this slightly lighter riff upon the same style. Constructed
around 50 ‘odd scenes’ YOU, THE LIVING ups the deadpan
humour - even sprinkling in some New Orleans style jazz – but
it broadens the narrative range. Andersson compared many of
the situations he shows as burlesque describing it as “a farce
about the human condition.” Andersson shot the film almost
completely in his Stockholm Studio 24 giving him an awesome
level of control over his creation. This approach allowed him to
conjure up one unforgettable scene where a girl dreams of her
flat coasting along a railway track.
Print source: Artificial Eye
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