A couple of years ago I watched what I believe was an English film for a semiotics class. I believe it was a satire on life itself, with comedic notes alongside more serious one. Due to the aesthetic of the film, I could have put it anywhere from late eighties through the nineties production-wise. It was essentially a series of vignettes that I believe related to either the world ending or just England (?). There was a character who's brother was in an an insane asylum, a character who was a cross salesman (?), a general that I remember being stuck in traffic, and I believe a family that owned a furniture store that burned down. I remember sequences of traffic being at a standstill, so people got out of their cars and entered a cafe. Another one of a bunch of aristocrats attempting to haul Terry Gilliam-esque piles of luggage across an airport walkway. And then one of a nation of elderly aristocrats and military personal sacrificing a child, then cutting to them all being drunk and engaging in debauchery at what I believe was either a bar or private club. It's so hard to describe this movie due to the way it was cut together and the fact that it was commenting on so much. The film is similar in feel, but not entirely in style, to Synecdoche, New York. I hope this helps and one of you knows what I'm talking about...