The stock market is crashing. The city is paralysed in gridlock. Mobs
process through the streets, flogging themselves into a frenzy. This
is a film about what happens when systems collapse, when cultures
become spiritually bankrupt and materially exhausted, when
apocalyptic, millennial angst corrodes the myth of progress. It's
riveting to watch - composed as a series of 46 scenes, shot in wide screen
deep focus. Without moving the camera or cutting, Andersson holds your
attention spell-bound; something's always happening at the edge of
the frame, adding twists of surreal gallows humour to a film of almost
scriptural intensity.
