The read
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 88% of the 5,468 2010s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes90%
Metacritic81/100
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
503 audience votes
Key crew
- Roy AnderssonDirector
- Roy AnderssonScreenplay
Cast
- Holger AnderssonJonathan
- Nisse VestblomSam
- Viktor GyllenbergLe Roi Charles XII
- Lotti TörnrosLe Professeur de Flamenco
- Jonas GerholmLe Colonel Solitaire
- Ola StenssonLe Capitaine/Barbier
- Oscar SalomonssonLe Danseur
- Roger Olsen LikvernLe Gardien
- Charlotta LarssonLotta la Boiteuse
- Göran HolmBargäst
Stills
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Themes
anarchic comedy