Human Poems: Roy Andersson’s Songs from the Second Floor (opens in new tab)

In 1970, a Swedish filmmaker in his mid-twenties became an instant critical darling with his debut feature: a lyrical, Czechoslovak New Wave-inflected, romantic drama matter-of-factly titled En kärlekshistoria (A Love Story, presented in Anglophone territories as A Swedish Love Story). This filmmaker, a brash young thing named Roy Andersson, hailed from a working-class Gothenburg background. […]