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Songs from the Second Floor (Swedish: Sånger från andra våningen) is a Swedish black comedy-drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 6 October 2000, written and directed by Roy Andersson. It presents a series of disconnected vignettes that together interrogate aspects of modern life.
Apr 19, 2022 · A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his youngest son and his girlfriend.
Oct 6, 2000 · Songs from the Second Floor: Directed by Roy Andersson. With Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Bengt C.W. Carlsson, Torbjörn Fahlström. Where are we humans going? A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. We meet people in the city. People trying to communicate, searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things.
Nov 1, 2002 · Roy Andersson's "Songs From the Second Floor" is a collision at the intersection of farce and tragedy--the apocalypse as a joke on us. In a sour, gray city, filled with pale drunken salarymen and parading flagellants, everything goes wrong, pain is laughed at, businesses fail, traffic seizes up and a girl is made into a human sacrifice to save ...
Jun 28, 2020 · The original trailer in high definition of Songs from the Second Floor directed by Roy Andersson. Starring Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Bengt C.W. Carlsson and Torbjörn Fahlström. ...more....
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky 08 Aug 2009 7. In a city, somewhere in the far north, a strange series of events take place: a clerk is made redundant in a degrading manner; a lost immigrant is violently attacked in a busy street; a magician makes an error in his act….
Songs from the Second Floor is to conventional cinema what poem is to a material world. Director Roy Andersson knew only the most absurd and surreal form of storytelling would do his grand visions justice, and Songs from the Second Floor is exactly that nutcase messenger Andersson needs to broadcast his images of poetic philosophy.
Jul 3, 2002 · In Theaters At Home TV Shows. One evening, somewhere in our hemisphere, a strange series of illogical events take place: a clerk is made redundant in a degrading manner; a lost immigrant is ...
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This absurd and original comedy is from the brilliantly off-beat worldview of Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson, director of the acclaimed 'You, the Living. Described by critic J. Hoberman as 'slapstick Ingmar Bergman, the film unfolds as a series of comic inter-connected vignettes which portray scenes from an urban world that has ground to a halt and whose citizens teeter on the brink of madness.
Starring Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Bengt C. W. Carlsson. Following a twenty-five year break from feature filmmaking, Swedish existentialist Roy Andersson reintroduced his singular vision to the world with this by turns bleak and mordantly funny vision of the tragicomic absurdity of modern life.
