Songs Form The Second Floor

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Songs form the second floor. The film uses many quotations from the work of the peruvian poet césar vallejo as a recurring. Songs from the second floor is one of the most extraordinary films that i have ever seen. His voice shocked everyone. Amazing flash mob started by one little girl ode to joy duration.

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 a corporation. 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. Roy andersson duration. Directed by roy andersson.

The turn of the millennium brought no shortage of apocalyptic visions fueled by the common anxiety that the 21st century put humanity on borrowed time portending an era s end more than a new beginning. Where are we humans going. But before the earth falls to dust most doomsayers at least offer a morsel of redemption or salvation to the faithful one last chance for people to rescue their souls from the great abyss. People trying to communicate searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things.

It metaphorically satirises a society at crossroads. Songs from the second floor which shared the special jury prize at the 2000 cannes film festival is an indescribably surrealistic examination of the pointlessness of modern life in a nameless. With lars nordh stefan larsson bengt c w. Haunted by the guilt of its past transgressions morally bankrupt after throwing spirituality on the rubbish heap and having sacrificed the future of its children to a misguided.

We meet people in the city. Released in 2000 it represents the swedish director roy andersson s surreal and disturbing meditation on the emptiness absurdity and alienation he sees permeating western society at the turn of the millenium. This track comes from the roy andersson movie songs from the second floor for which benny andersson wrote some music. The closing sequence of songs from the second floor should reverberate in anyone s mind for a long while.

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. A 10 year old autistic and blind boy singing. Songs from the second floor swedish. Songs from the second floor dir.