Songs From The Second Floor Douban

Songs from the second floor swedish.

Songs from the second floor douban. 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. Songs from the second floor is a film by roy andersson and it is based on the poems of caesar v. This track is featured at the end of. It metaphorically satirises a society at crossroads.

People trying to communicate searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things. Where are we humans going. Directed by roy andersson. The film uses many quotations from the work of the peruvian poet césar vallejo as a recurring.

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. This trailer has been uploaded for a educational film series. 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. This track comes from the roy andersson movie songs from the second floor for which benny andersson wrote some music.

With lars nordh stefan larsson bengt c w. 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. The closing sequence of songs from the second floor should reverberate in anyone s mind for a long while. A film poem inspired by the peruvian poet césar vallejo.

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.