Roy Andersson

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Roy Arne Lennart Andersson (born 31 March 1943) is a Swedish film director. His early films are naturalistic, most notably his feature film debut A Swedish Love Story (1970), which was a success in Sweden. It was followed by Giliap (1975), a more stylized film whose commercial failure made Andersson unable to make another feature film for 25 years. Because of this, Andersson spent much of his professional life working on advertisement spots, directing over 400 commercials and two short films. During this period he changed style to one characterized by long takes, and stiff and grotesque caricatures. Andersson returned to feature films with Songs from the Second Floor, for which he received the 2000 Cannes Film Festival's Jury Prize. His film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) won the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion. His other feature films are You, the Living (2007) and About Endlessness (2019).

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