Giliap

This film (drama)Also known as"Giliap"，is aSwedenProducerwomen sex，At1975Released in year 。The dialogue language isSwedish，Current Douban rating7.0(For reference only)。

A man wandering from place to place arrives at a hotel to work as a waiter, where he meets the beautiful waitress Anna and the eccentric dishwasher Gustav. Anna and Gustav have an affair, but not by her own will. Gustav harbors a terrible criminal desire and gives the new waiter the name Giliap, coaxing him to help carry out his plan to kidnap a victim. Anna falls in love with Giliap and hopes to elope with him, but is rejected. One day, Anna suddenly leaves without a word... Swedish director Roy Andersson (known for "Songs from the Second Floor" and "You, the Living") did not direct a feature film for 25 years due to this film's disastrous box office performance and critical reception. Roy Andersson admitted that the film has flaws, primarily because he did not have enough control over it; he also stated that contemporary audiences lacked the appreciation for such a somewhat avant-garde film, which was stylistically different from his first feature "A Swedish Love Story." He believed that this film is as outstanding as Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon," which was released subsequently. Moreover, from today's perspective, this film is easily accepted as a cult classic. In the 1996 Swedish TV series "Persuasion," there is a segment that critiques Swedish cinema, where characters consider Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander" quite mediocre, while Roy Andersson's "Giliap" is regarded as the only masterpiece of Swedish cinema in the past 25 years.