Variety's Pia Lundberg reports there's a new pic by Swedish great Roy Andersson, to debut at Cannes. "As he proved in his Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winning Songs From the Second Floor in 2000, there is contemporary Swedish cinema, and there is Roy Andersson. A first look at [You, the Living] shows Andersson is still everything but a middle-of-the-road Scandinavian director. With two more scenes to be shot, the pic has the same slow pace and tableau aestethics as "Songs," his comeback film after 25 years' absence for the feature film biz, but with more humor... For the $6.4 million drama... Andersson and producer Pernilla Sandstrom applied for $1.3 million from the Swedish Film Institute. To Andersson's disappointment, the production was allocated only $726,000... "I think the Swedish system for state financing is a strange hybrid between the industry and the state. It might have been a successful solution during the Ingmar Bergman era, but it was different then..." He says "that today, no Swedish studios are willing to stake money on filmmakers with artistic ambitions, even though production companies rely on state subsidies. "My features work abroad, and that's my salvation," Andersson says... The question is how to make Swedish films more attractive in the international market."There is never enough time or money, and the budget always draws a line... We need quality, and that's attained by patient work." For now, seven of the commercials that have made his name and kroner, which is how he self-produced the beautiful, crazily stylized, mostly extended single-take Songs from the Second Floor (2000).
Posted by Ray Pride at December 4, 2006 10:09 AM
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