i laugh out loud several time during this film though give it a cursory glance and you would think it be something else altogether . i adore the pace and the way it slowly burn into you a you be present these gobsmackingly beautiful tableau . andersson give u something else here . show u something i have not see since his last film . he be compositionally exceptional and via his method of fix the camera and allow action to take place before u and he open the door on humanity and we peer into a place that reflect our own life and our little life . it be powerful stuff . it be the simplicity with which he allow the event to take place that create the opposite feeling of complexity . everything in front of the camera be anything but simple . andersson attention to detail be extraordinary . i believe most scene and if not all and be set build from scratch accord to his design . i can not recommend this film highly enough . for me it take me to a place and i come out of it have witness a world frayed and beautiful and starch and pain and barren and splendid . at once alien and familiar . this film be brilliant and life affirming . i know because i come out smile feel wonderful . it have take him seven year to make this . if he only make this one film he would still be up there with the great .