But it is the visual imagination of this film that is breathtaking. Roy Andersson - Roy Arne Lennart Andersson (born 31 March 1943) is an acclaimed Swedish film director, best known for A Swedish Love Story (1970) and his Living trilogy, which includes Songs from the Second Floor (2000), You, the Living (2007) and The same washed-out pastel colours as before, but every scene is beautifully and carefully composed. Attention to detail is everywhere. Roy Arne Lennart Andersson (born 31 March 1943) is a Swedish film director, best known for A Swedish Love Story (1970) and his "Living trilogy," which includes Songs from the Second Floor (2000), You, the Living (2007) and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014).

Including You, the Living (2007), Songs from the Second Floor (2000) and his most recent work, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014), the tragicomic trilogy forms a multi-layered reflection on the wonderful strangeness of being human. In fact I don't find its narrative very engaging. Andersson’s latest film, About Endlessness, hews to the same idiosyncratic method he established in his previous three features, collectively dubbed the “Living Trilogy.” A series of vignettes, each captured in a single, stationary shot, are linked by recurring motifs and characters but without an overarching plot.

Andersson is known for his musings on everyday life and existence – which forms the backbone of his Living Triology – which are combined with absurdist humour and utterly surreal scenes with eccentric characters. In this article, I explore three films that comprise Swedish director Roy Andersson's “Living Trilogy” – Songs from the Second Floor (2000); You, the Living (2007); and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014). Back-to-back screenings of all three films in Roy Andersson's critically acclaimed, beautifully absurd trilogy.

Roy Arne Lennart Andersson (born 31 March 1943) is an acclaimed Swedish film director, best known for A Swedish Love Story (1970) and his "Living trilogy," which includes Songs from the Second Floor (2000), You, the Living (2007) and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014).

The Tyneside Cinema are bringing back the first two award-winning instalments of the Living Trilogy in the run up to the release of the final, long-awaited segment. Roy Andersson has turned me into a huge fan of his work after seeing only two of his movies, and now that I’ve seen You, The Living, I think I can confidently say that The Living Trilogy is my favorite movie trilogy ever. IN ROY ANDERSSON’S “LIVING” TRILOGY by ELLA TUCAN Under the Direction of Angelo Restivo, PhD ABSTRACT Roy Andersson’s unique surrealist style and the affect it gives rise to, situated somewhere between deep existential dread and the most absurdist humor, are intimately connected to his staging of action in stacked layers of meaning in deep focus, immobile long takes.