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Om det oändliga (2019)
What a poetic journey of the human spirit
Roy Andersson and his team did it again. A poetic art film at its best, capturing the Swedish culture with a high dose of sarcasm and cynicism in an environment that is build up with the perfect atmosphere. The scenes are like paintings, that will make you speechless and either make you giggle a bit or shake your head in despair. Just like his previous films, this one engraved itself permanently in my mind and I already look forward to watch it again some day. And again.
A torinói ló (2011)
God is dead
Besides the mentioned connection to Nietzsche, this film portrays 6 days of utter misery of two people that seem to live in a world abandonded by God. It's incredible hard to witness the daily suffering of a father and his daughter and their horse. All they have is their daily routines to make it to the next day. Slowly they lose everything. And your potatoes will never taste the same again.
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Not the masterpiece you'd expect, quite the opposite.
Lars von Trier seemed desperate for an American blockbuster. He took a popstar with film ambitions but realized she couldn't act and decided to mix a musical in the movie. If you like Björk's voice or not, surely the others couldn't sing at all. But nevermind, there's drama as well. Let Björk play an East-European immigrant who for some reason escaped during the cold war to the US and lives with her 12-year-old son in a trailer, in some small town somewhere away from the big city, and at the property of a police officer (!) who tricks his wife into believing he's rich. Not enough drama? Well, you make this poor immigrant single mum factory worker go blind, rapidly. If that doesn't make your life end as you know it, having your savings stolen - money that was supposed to be for her 13-year-old son operation whom she assumed would otherwise also go blind in his thirties, is enough to kill her landlord the police officer during a very unrealistic struggle all followed by a song about it. The plot and the camera moves all over the place and all characters seem to be unauthentic in their behaviour and reactions. In court she protects the police officer because she promised him not to tell about his debt. As a consequence, this leads to the further downfall of her existence but by that time I couldn't watch more.