Roy Andersson
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Digger recalls Roy Andersson’s surreal, freeze-dried environments…
Visual references for the film run the gamut, ranging from Roy Andersson’s absurdist works and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things to compatriot Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men or even the video game Half-Life.
Ade delivers laughs in spades — there is something of the deadpan absurdity of A Swedish Love Story director Roy Andersson in her worldview — and creates a malleable tone that can take in a man dressed as a tree and always feel real.
The Little Prince (2015)
Directed by Mark Osborne
influenced by Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Visuals
The main story’s CG-animation aptly gives these humans in their roads-gridded, boxed-up-and-cubicled, super-structured, all-business world a dull, plastic look (it’s a cutting satire of modern-non-life, as if dryly merging Tati’s Play Time and Roy Andersson’s Songs From The Second Floor).
• "You, the Living," by Roy Andersson, absurdist Swedish director of "Songs From the Second Floor," and "Mammoth," by Lukas Moodysson, with Gael Garcia Bernal and Michelle Williams, both Feb. 26-28…