Andersson confirmed in Un Certain Regard
by Annika Pham
The Swedish film industry was finally able to heave a sigh of relief today when the Cannes Film Festival announced that Roy Andersson's highly anticipated You, the Living [+see also:
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This will be the iconic Swedish filmmaker’s third time on the Croisette. Thirty years ago, he presented Giliap in the Directors’ Fortnight and in 2000 won a Special Jury Prize for his Songs From the Second Floor, selected in official competition.
His fourth feature film will again deal with the human condition and human behaviour as Andersson explained in the film’s production notes: “You the Living breaks intentionally with the prevailing Anglo-Saxon film dramaturgy but is still a story about human existence, about the business of being human, about human concerns, about human dreams and human sorrows”.
The film is a truly European co-production between the filmmaker's production company Roy Andersson Filmproduktion, Philippe Bobert’s French and German outfits Société Parisienne de ProductionThermidor and Thermidor, respectively, Denmark’s Posthusteatret, and Norway’s 4 ½ Production.
As many as 18 financiers contributed to the €5m project, including broadcasters SVT and Canal + in Sweden, Arte WDR in Germany, Arte France Cinéma, Swedish and Danish Film Institutes, the Norwegian Film Fund, Eurimages and the Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
Bober’s The Coproduction Officeis handling international sales and the Swedish release is set for August.
Last time Sweden was at Un Certain Regard was in 1998 with Ingmar Bergman’s In The Presence of a Clown.
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