Being a Human Person
[A] terrific, unexpectedly moving documentary.
Being a Human Person
At 76 years of age, maverick Swedish auteur Roy Andersson is about to complete his final film - About Endlessness. But now, with the end of his career in sight, the central thematic concerns of Roy's work - vulnerability, insecurity and mortality - spill over into his creative process, blurring the line between the personal and the professional.
In documenting this process, Being A Human Person becomes a powerful meditation on the relationship between art and artist, and a heartbreakingly honest portrait of one of the most startlingly original and unremittingly humane directors in world cinema.
In documenting this process, Being A Human Person becomes a powerful meditation on the relationship between art and artist, and a heartbreakingly honest portrait of one of the most startlingly original and unremittingly humane directors in world cinema.
Genre
Documentary,
Films & Filmmakers
Web Site
Runtime
92
Language
Swedish,
English
Director
Fred Scott
FEATURED REVIEW
Glenn Kenny, New York Times
The Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson began his feature career in the early 1970s with distinctive but conventionally linear narratives. Interview clips from his early fame, included in “Being a Human Person,” a new documentary directed by Fred Scott, show a fresh-faced, sometimes glib fellow ...
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Laemmle Virtual Cinema 7.30.21 - 9.30.21
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