from a swedish activist to a swedish film—maker, roy andersson, the subject of fred scott's strange andather wonderful documentary being a human person. having scored a hit with his first feature a swedish love story in 1970, andersson, who reacted badly to success, took five years to make his second film, the poorly—received giliap, after which he concentrated instead on commercials and shorts. setting up his own studio in an empty building in stockholm, he created a world in which he had total control and from which he produced his living trilogy. songs from the second floor, you, the living, and the venice golden lion winner, a pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence. working this way is messy because it's about roy's feelings. scott's documentary takes us inside that studio as andersson and his team toil away at his typically painstaking latest film about endlessness, which opens here in november. as always, every detail of the film is constructed within the studio conjuring scenes in which nothing is left to chance, but andersson, who thinks this film will be his last, is al

scott's documentary takes us inside that studio as andersson and his team toil away at his typically latest film, about endlessness, which opens here in november. as always, every detail of the film is constructed within the studio conjuring scenes in which nothing is left to chance, but andersson, who thinks this film will be his last, is also confronting his own demons in the form of alcoholism with which his colleagues and family are losing patience. i'm not very surprised but disappointed. negotiating a very thin line between celebration and investigation, scott's melancholy doc watches andersson at work, observing both the perfectionism that he demands and the frustration of those who have to deal with his increasing unpredictability. inevitably, there's a sense of an ending at play, with andersson clearly struggling to finish what's being called his final film, and thereby confronting his own mortality. but scott does a terrificjob of highlighting the humanism at the heart of andersson‘s absurdist work, exhibiting the same sympathy that runs throughout his subject's surreal tra

scott's documentary takes us inside that studio as andersson