Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by tinear (A) on September 18, 2006 at 16:43:16

original film from Sweden's Roy Andersson.
Take a bit of Fellini, some Bunuel, a dash of Bergmann and you get a beautifully filmed, pensive dissection of modern society.
A man is let go after thirty years of corporate servitude, having been so devoted as to push away his naked wife because "I haven't been absent once and I'm not going to start today!"
The man who fires him reports to an unseen figure beneath a tanning booth and, after he follows orders and does the firing, we see him fiddling with a golfing iron as his lover stares from a hotel window.
One intelligently or intelligibly cannot describe this film because it is told in a pure visual style. It is a most honest, frightening depiction of post-modern society yet told with great humor.
The score is hauntingly beautiful, as is the visual imagery.
Andersson is a major talent.