Showing: 17 March 2025
After a break from filmmaking, Swedish existentialist Roy Andersson (A Love Story) reintroduced his singular vision to the world with this by turns bleak and mordantly funny vision of the tragicomic absurdity of modern life.
Forty-six seemingly random, deadpan, and precisely composed vignettes depict a mercilessly capitalist world in breakdown. An office worker is fired in the most humiliating way possible; a magician fails at a magic trick; self-flagellating stockbrokers take to the streets; and one desperate man (Lars Nordh) decides to burn it all down.
"At once wickedly funny and deeply disturbing, Andersson's deadpan, apocalyptic tone poem conjures up an exquisitely hermetic vision of mankind at the final buzzer." Time Out
Visions of Europe returns for its 4th edition, celebrating the breadth of European cinema with a handpicked selection of new releases, previews, festival hits and classics returning to the big screen.
Supported by Film Hub NI, part of the BFI Film Audience Network, awarding funds from National Lottery.