Songs From The Second Floor Review

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.

Songs from the second floor review. Composed of a series of immaculately staged tableaux songs from the second floor is a stylized black comedy turned nightmare. With lars nordh stefan larsson bengt c w. Nihilistic post punk from glasgow. While slarek s review for andersson s follow up you the living essentially introduced me to the great swede s work a few moments of basic research has led me to his very recognisable and sympathetic to me at least worldview.

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. For the first 20 minutes or so this slice of nordic surrealism a blend of millennial metaphorical allegory and bizarre black comedy looks set to become some sort of hilarious masterpiece. Dead hope songs from the second floor self released cd dl. 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.

The story of the film evolves partly around the head character kalle who s firm has being burned downed to the ground. Directed by roy andersson. Songs from the second floor movie reviews metacritic score. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users.

We meet people in the city. People trying to communicate searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things. The making and the cinematic content of songs from the second floor is a good example that these two characteristics is one of roy s two most important trademarks. Where are we humans going.

Reviewed by neil hodge his first piece for louder than war.