“Blending wry comedy with moments of pathos, Andersson’s film builds up a portrait of lives past and present wishing to find meaning in the world and to seek that most elusive of things: happiness. What’s so extraordinary about Andersson’s cinema is that where some filmmakers might produce dark and troubling dramas, Andersson produces work of comic brilliance and even moments of pure undiluted happiness for which his characters so desperately search.”