Songs From Teh Second Floor

With lars nordh stefan larsson bengt c w.

Songs from teh second floor. We meet people in the city. It metaphorically satirises a society at crossroads. Directed by roy andersson. People trying to communicate searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things.

Roy andersson s songs from the second floor is analogous to a rambling and insane homeless man on the side of the highway. 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. His distant screams and cries of anguish may seem humorous at first because of their dry annotations and blunt audacity but his wailing pleas soon creep into your soul. This track comes from the roy andersson movie songs from the second floor for which benny andersson wrote some music.

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. Songs from the second floor swedish. 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. The closing sequence of songs from the second floor should reverberate in anyone s mind for a long while.

This track is featured at the end of. Where are we humans going. A film poem inspired by the peruvian poet césar vallejo. Songs from the second floor 2000 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more.

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.