You, The Living

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ROY ANDERSSON

“No one else makes movies like Roy Andersson.” – Jason Anderson, Cinema Scope

“Like a hypnotic succession of sumptuously mounted Beckettian tableaux.
[Andersson] is radically different from anyone else, with a technical, compositional rigor
that puts other movie-makers and visual artists to shame. And he really is funny.”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (UK)

“A morosely comic symphony…rife with awkward encounters,
beguiling non sequiturs and very dry Nordic humor.”
– Justin Chang, Variety

“Absurdist, dreamy, touching. [Andersson’s] ability to amuse and chasten audiences simultaneously…
is rare and covetable genius.”
– Sukhdev Sandhu, Daily Telegraph (UK)

“One of the supreme absurdists of our time, Andersson (SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR) serves up a series of immaculately conceived vignettes of appalling urban life. Set in a perpetually cold, smoke-diffused Northern Europe, they’re constantly surprising and often outrageously funny. Working in long, static takes on intricate studio sets, he challenges his hapless characters at every turn. One sublime conceit — a honeymoon house that glides through the night like a train — provokes the thought that, for Andersson, in a world always on the brink of disaster, the only true salvation is in our imagination.” — David Thompson, Film Comment

Roy Andersson’s Official Site

SWEDEN / GERMANY / FRANCE / DENMARK / NORWAY • 2007 • 95 MINS.
IN SWEDISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • PALISADES TARTAN