There is such a ghost director, with a unique style, with a surreal absurdity and sexual cold wind, conquered many people.
His artistic standard is quite high, watching his films is like watching a painting exhibition, there are many poetic and imaginative moments flying out, and there are not many works but close to the master.
He is the Swedish gem director Roy Anderson.
Roy Anderson, who is 73 years old this year, has only 6 feature films so far, which can be said to be very low-prolific, not a late bloom, but related to his unique life experience.
He studied under Ingmar Bergmann and, after graduating from film school at the age of 27, was highly acclaimed for his realistic youth romance film Swedish Love Story, which was selected for the main competition of the Berlin Film Festival.
However, Anderson's second film, "The Journey of Bondage", suffered a box office failure and controversy, and he did not make a feature film for about 25 years.
Instead of making movies, Anderson went to advertise, and after achieving financial freedom, he threw himself into film again and had more freedom of expression.
In 2000, he made a very personal third feature film, "The Song from the Second Floor", which won the Jury Prize in the main competition section of Cannes.
Since then, Anderson has worked slowly, handing over a feature film every seven years, completing "You Are Still Alive" and "Cold Branch Sparrow Quiet", of which "Cold Branch Sparrow Quiet" won the Golden Lion Award at the 2014 Venice Film Festival.
These three films, collectively known as the "Life Trilogy", also basically realize Anderson's artistic expression, in which we can often see: fixed long shots, one scene at a time, absurd expression, cold, restrained, slow but emerging rare emotional moments, things that cannot happen in reality, the capture of the truth of life and the glimmer of human nature....
Interestingly, Anderson broke the rhythm of a film in 7 years, spent 5 years to hand over "About Infinity", and won the best director at the Venice Film Festival.
Today's recommendation is Roy Anderson's latest work, About Infinity.
If you haven't seen Anderson's films, this shortest work would be a good primer.
This work is like a poem about the tragic and joyful life of mankind and the eternal condition of existence.
You, I, he, all appear as equals in the endless cycle of humanity:
Beautiful cruelty, violent warmth, joyful sorrow.
Warm solitude, free repression, gorgeous mediocrity.
Love and death, pain and song, joy and sorrow.......
A row of geese flew far in the air, and the woman said to the man, unable to believe that it was September.
But fortunately they are not the most familiar strangers...
An old man was talking to himself, and the old classmate passed by and shouted that he did not respond, only to remember that he had hurt him.
At the beginning, he was unremarkable, why did he even get a doctorate after being promoted today, and he seemed to have achieved nothing and couldn't figure it out.
His wife comforted him, at least he had seen the Great Falls, and climbed the Eiffel Tower.....
Maybe you can't completely satisfy yourself, but small people can be great!
An absent-minded waiter, when pouring wine for the guests, spilled all over the table.
How to wipe it is useless, and the rescue is superfluous, like life.
But always rejoice: as a person, you are allowed to be in a daze, you are allowed to make mistakes...
A female executive faces the window, staring motionlessly at the bustle of the outside world.
Savor what shame and emptiness are...
A man who doesn't trust banks, hides all his money in a mattress, and is self-satisfied...
A man in a suit, carrying a cross, was beaten in the street by a group of people, but he did not know what he had done wrong...
A boy who has not found love meets a girl who waters flowers at the entrance of a shop.
The girl walked away, and the boy still stared at the place where the girl had appeared, for a long time...
A priest who has lost his faith turns to a psychiatrist.
The doctor could not answer the question about God, and persuaded, "Maybe it is time to be satisfied with life." "
The priest still had to convey God's Word in order to work, but he himself did not believe what he said, how tormented!
The desperate priest asked the doctor again, but was expelled from the door because the other party was leaving work...
A pair of parents who lost their son in the war visit their son in front of the grave.
Pouring out every day's thoughts...
A man who accidentally stepped on a landmine and lost both legs in the war played sad music in the streets.
Narrate that he is not an outcast of the world...
A couple of lovers float over a city that was once known for its beauty but is now in ruins.
The world may not be as good as it should be, but there will be unspeakable romances above the ruins of the post-war period.
A mother and daughter are waiting for their husbands at the station, the family is reunited, and the story is over?
A woman appeared behind them, and the person who picked her up did not appear for a long time, and she was extremely lonely.
Later, the man hurriedly came, just a loving hug, and they reconciled...
A plump woman loves champagne, very much, one bite after another.
Drink out the feeling of flying...
A gentle woman looks left and right in the restaurant when a man opens the door and asks if she is the one he is dating.
She denied it, and it turned out he was lost.
Even more embarrassing, the woman waiting for the man appeared with a drink.
And in the often overlooked corner, a man has been eating silently, what kind of story does he have?
A woman who had broken her heel in the mall was a little helpless.
It is better to simply take off your shoes and push the stroller to continue...
Outside a country bar, three boys were chatting, and then three lively girls appeared, and they suddenly danced to the music...
Inconspicuous happiness, sporadic comfort, yet so moving.
These seemingly insignificant moments make up our lives, as if to tell us that life itself is incredibly important.
A soldier who did not know what crime he had committed was tied to a stake.
He kept begging for pity to spare him, but he called every day should not be.....
A middle-aged man who wants to save his family's reputation and hurt his daughter soon regrets it...
In a vegetable market, an old couple is buying fish, staring at the master's handling of fish.
Unexpectedly, the inconspicuous man in the crowd behind them is the protagonist of the story.
Only to see him growl loudly, "Do you have so much to say to him?" "
Snap!
He slapped his wife three times.
After being stopped by the crowd, he asked her sadly, "Do you know I love you?" "
In one room, the teenager spoke to the young girl about the law of immortality.
It turns out that you and I will meet again in the form of potatoes and tomatoes in 1 million years.
Maybe they'll float together on top of the enchanting ruins...
A war was over, and the drunken officers, completely overwhelmed by the heavy reality, gave up their resistance.
As the fuehrer, he faced subordinates who were indifferent to all things, and he only had the same embarrassment and unbearableness...
It turns out that life is full of accidents and helplessness, even Hitler is nothing more than this.
A father braved the rain to take his daughter to a friend's birthday party, stopping to tie his child's shoelaces on the way.
This loving and ordinary moment of life seems insignificant, but in fact has the same meaning as historical events.
A man doesn't know what he wants and cries on the bus.
Someone criticized, "Can't you go back to your own home and grieve, do you have to be in public?" ”
"Doesn't he have the right to grieve?"
If you can't even allow a person to express or express emotions outside, how lonely the world must be.
Therefore, we must respect the right of individual grief, and more importantly, we must also have the ability to huddle together to resist loneliness.
A dentist who was in a bad mood and met a picky customer had no choice but to go.
He went to a bar to borrow a drink to dispel his worries, not in the mood to admire the heavy snow outside.
A man next to him happily repeated his emotions to everyone: "Heavy snow, how beautiful!" ”
Some people are in suffering, some people are looking for some beauty, and life is endlessly intertwined and reincarnated in the illusion and pain of beauty.
A defeated army, marching towards the enemy in the cold wind, in a prisoner-of-war camp in Siberia...
On a deserted road, a man with a broken car on the way is repairing a car, a group of geese flying through the silent sky...
Life is like this, like countless endless life and death sorrows and joys in the cycle, everyone will eventually have to bear the weight...
This is Roy Anderson's About Infinity.
Endless gaze, endless busyness, endless hustle, endless emptiness, endless joy and sorrow, endless cycle...
These stories that travel through history, reflect reality, and echo the future are infinitely alive in our minds.
If all the tragic and happy situations in life are infinitely cyclical, then all the energies in the world are also interconnected.
Our circumstances and emotions are also connected, and people who love each other can fall in love with each other in a new cycle.
Love can also never be destroyed in a cycle...