Songs From The Second Floor Movie Review

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.

Songs from the second floor movie review. Where are we humans going. With lars nordh stefan larsson bengt c w. That being essentially a discussion on the new millennium. The film uses many quotations from the work of the peruvian poet césar vallejo as a recurring.

The everyday apocalypse envisaged in songs from the second floor is a wonder to behold an idiosyncratic humanist allegory without parallel in cinema unless of course you include andersson s. Considering songs from the second floor makes anomalisa s depressing take on the human experience feel like the magic roundabout in comparison it s safe to say that he wasn t particularly positive about what was coming. Songs from the second floor has been described as a poem put to film but after viewing this emotional work of art i can t help but to feel that a swedish opera put to film is a more accurate description. Songs from the second floor swedish.

We meet people in the city. Directed by roy andersson. Songs from the second floor movie reviews metacritic score. Composed of a series of immaculately staged tableaux songs from the second floor is a stylized black comedy turned nightmare.

A film poem inspired by the peruvian poet césar vallejo. Songs from the second floor is an interrogation on modern life. Songs from the second floor peter bradshaw. 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. People trying to communicate searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things.