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Has anybody seen this?
I went last night, and although it was extremely dead-pan and rather disjointed I enjoyed it immensely
Classic Roy Andersson!
Many of the people who were in the screening were walking out after 20 or 30 minutes, so it made me wonder what the general feeling towarRAB this movie was....
"You, The Living (15)
Director: Roy Andersson Origin: Sweden Year: 2008 Duration: 115 Starring: Elisabeth Helander, Bjorn Englund, Jessika Lundberg
YOU, THE LIVING follows a similar approach to Andersson's previous SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR, but takes a slightly lighter tone in presenting a wry series of tragi-comic vignettes from modern life. We meet a motley crew of characters: a stout depressive and her long-suffering husband; a girl with an unrequited crush on a musician; an Arab barber taking sweet revenge on a racist customer... If none of these sound intrinsically funny, they certainly become so when filtered through Andersson's world view that is specifically Nordic yet strangely universal. His skill lies in revealing the absurd details of what people around us do every day, the precision in his filmmaking giving added comic impact to the sheer randomness of much of what we see."
Review from Cannes Film Festival:
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=cannes2007&jump=review&reviewid=VE1117933754&cs=1
I went last night, and although it was extremely dead-pan and rather disjointed I enjoyed it immensely
Classic Roy Andersson!Many of the people who were in the screening were walking out after 20 or 30 minutes, so it made me wonder what the general feeling towarRAB this movie was....
"You, The Living (15)
Director: Roy Andersson Origin: Sweden Year: 2008 Duration: 115 Starring: Elisabeth Helander, Bjorn Englund, Jessika Lundberg
YOU, THE LIVING follows a similar approach to Andersson's previous SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR, but takes a slightly lighter tone in presenting a wry series of tragi-comic vignettes from modern life. We meet a motley crew of characters: a stout depressive and her long-suffering husband; a girl with an unrequited crush on a musician; an Arab barber taking sweet revenge on a racist customer... If none of these sound intrinsically funny, they certainly become so when filtered through Andersson's world view that is specifically Nordic yet strangely universal. His skill lies in revealing the absurd details of what people around us do every day, the precision in his filmmaking giving added comic impact to the sheer randomness of much of what we see."
Review from Cannes Film Festival:
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=cannes2007&jump=review&reviewid=VE1117933754&cs=1