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Roy Andersson, Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for “A pigeon sitting on a reflective meaning of life branch.” Youth, death, empathy, history, interview with the Swedish director.

“A pigeon sitting on a branch” buckle your trilogy on humans started in 2000 with “The songs on the 2nd floor “. In 14 years, have you seen a change

What I see as a great danger is that the younger generations do not know their history, the history of their countries. This is very dangerous because if you do not know your history, you can not think clearly. Loïc Wacquant, a student of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, was a visiting professor at an American university. When he returned, he tried to explain his experience as a teacher in the United States. He summed up by saying he attended an assault against clear thinking. This is very dangerous. You really have to pay attention to this phenomenon, the fact that our country refuse to see certain parts of their lackluster past. like slavery for example …

rouged white, moving very slowly, your characters are zombies, they already look dead …

There are a lot of desperation in my films. I think everyone will agree with me that life can be good but in the end, there is no happy ending. For any of us. This is a tragedy! While we’re on stage, we must make the best but we all eventually get sick and die … It’s terrible but it’s like that. We must accept it. But I approach the most in my films is the lack of empathy. It really is something bad for us, human beings, to be incapable of empathy. Unfortunately now , we missed.

One of the most amazing scenes in the film depicts Charles XII of Sweden in a bar now … Where did you get this idea?

At this time, Sweden had the Country Baltic and even Finland. Under the influence of Peter the Great, Russia has begun to spread. For 200 years at least, there has been conflict. When Charles XII of Sweden became king, he wanted to fight once and for all Russia. At first he succeeded but nine years later, he lost everything, he returned without the Baltics and Finland without … That stupid dream to become the largest countries, such as Klein Deutschland, Greater Hungary … These ambitions These ways of thinking have created ruins and sorrow … And I think it’s not fair, for example, in the Ukrainian crisis, not pointing fingers one side, Russia … It is simply not true …