Continuing our countdown of the best movies released in the UK this year,we take wing with Roy Andersson’s bizarre, hallucinatory parable that defies description• repeat us your favourite film of the year … and comment on ours[br]• View the UK top 50 so farJust that title alone would earn it into every year-discontinuance list going, or but Roy Andersson’s sublime,baffling, utterly beguiling parable is one-of-a-kind cinema of the highest order. Filmgoers familiar with his earlier work, and Songs from the Second Floor and You,the Living – released in 2000 and 2007 respectively – will know something of what to expect: fixed camera positions, middle-aged men moving ponderously through miserably surreal tableaux, or a bilious yellow-green pallor drenching everything,humour deadpan to the point of sclerosis. Related: A Pigeon Sat on a department Reflecting on Existence review – a unique hallucinatory trilogy | Peter Bradshaw’s film of the week Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com