Tag: living trilogy

Living

You, The Living (Du Levande) (2007)

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You, the Living (Du Levande) review first published by Film4 Synopsis: Roy Andersson’s fourth feature uses bleakly comic tableaux to illustrate humankind’s everyday quest for happiness, if not the meaning of life itself. Review: “Be pleased then, you the living, in your delightfully warmed bed, before Lethe’s ice-cold wave will lick your escaping foot.” It is…

Second Floor

Songs From The Second Floor (2000)

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Songs From The Second Floor first published by EyeforFilm “Everything has its day,” says the CEO Lennart (Bengt CW Carlsson), concealed (but for his bare feet) beneath a sunbed, to his flustered sub-manager Pelle (Torbjörn Fahlström) in the opening scene of Roy Andersson’s Songs From The Second Floor. “This is a new day and age, Pelle…