The Tweaker » Swedish cinema http://www.tweaker.se Our weekly look at the world Tue, 07 Apr 2015 07:46:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 Venice Golden Lion for Roy Andersson http://www.tweaker.se/uncategorized/venice-golden-lion-for-roy-andersson/ http://www.tweaker.se/uncategorized/venice-golden-lion-for-roy-andersson/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:34:23 +0000 http://www.tweaker.se/?p=8 The culture vultures among you will know that the wonderfully idiosyncratic Swedish director, Roy Andersson, has just bagged the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival with his new film A Pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence. A well-deserved win by all accounts:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11077000/Venice-Film-F…

You may not know that Roy used to moonlight and do TV ads. One of his customers was the Social Democrat party. Here is a selection of his work.

Very witty and each of these ads displays his very personal visual style

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