For the second time, Roy Andersson is facing the chance to take home a dignified lion statue in Venice. It was as late as 2014 that his A pigeon sat on a branch and contemplated his existence, becoming the first Swedish film to take home the prestigious Gold Lion.

When his new film, "About the Infinite", surfaced on Venice's white screen during Tuesday night, reactions and reviews from the surrounding cultural press and film critics seem to be definitely of the positive kind.

Among other things, the industry magazine describes the Variety film as "short, bitterly sweet and exquisitely composed". British The Guardian hooks up and calls the movie "odd and unlike everything else in the competition", the magazine's reviewer also gives the film a four in rating.

Indiewire is really positive, and gives the film its close to highest rating, an A-. Their film critics describe the film as follows:

“It is both short and endless. It is over in a heartbeat, while at the same time it feels like it could have lasted forever. "

Noah Baumbach one of the competitors

In an interview with the Culture News, Roy Andersson expressed a kind of humble confidence when describing his feelings for the race's decision.

- It's probably not so important to get another gold lion. But I won't say no if it does. The movie is at least very nice, I think. I understand that it has been withdrawn, Roy Andersson said.

The competitors that Roy Andersson has to compete with in the main section of the festival are Canadian Atom Egoyan, Japanese Hirokazu Kore-eda, French Olivier Assayas, Noah Baumbach and James Gray from the USA and as the only woman Haifaa al-Mansour from Saudi Arabia.