Roy Andersson at the MoMa in New York
by Annika Pham
The prestigious Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York is organising from September 10-18, a retrospective dedicated to Swedish film master Roy Andersson.
The director of You, the Living [+see also:
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Released by Palisades Tartan in the US, You the Living is currently playing on around 25 screens in the US, carried by glowing reviews. Andersson is also currently in the news as an author. His book Our Time's Fear of Seriousness will noon be published by Studio 24 in a new and revised edition. It will be available from September 24 at the Göteborg Book Fair.
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