Giliap
Screening on Film
Directed by Roy Andersson.
With Thommy Berggren, Mona Seilitz, Willie Andréason.
Sweden, 1975, 35mm, color, 140 min.
Swedish with English subtitles.
With Thommy Berggren, Mona Seilitz, Willie Andréason.
Sweden, 1975, 35mm, color, 140 min.
Swedish with English subtitles.
The odd, poetic Giliap, a chamber play with actor Thommy Berggren as a day laborer who lands employment at the Hotel Busarewski, is a marked departure from the spirit and style of A Swedish Love Story. A once elegant establishment now run by a meticulous but sadly out-of-touch supervisor, the hotel maintains a strangely rigid hierarchical order with its few employees. It is Giliap's visuals, however, that give the film its special power.