The Songs From The Second Floor

We meet people in the city.

The songs from the second floor.

Directed by roy andersson. A film poem inspired by the peruvian poet césar vallejo. N ow in the uk after winning the special jury prize at. It metaphorically satirises a society at crossroads.

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. This track comes from the roy andersson movie songs from the second floor for which benny andersson wrote some music. People trying to communicate searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things. Where are we humans going.

Songs from the second floor swedish. The story of the film evolves partly around the head character kalle who s firm has being burned downed to the ground. The closing sequence of songs from the second floor should reverberate in anyone s mind for a long while. With lars nordh stefan larsson bengt c w.

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 peter bradshaw peterbradshaw1 thu 15 feb 2001 21 29 est. Songs from the second floor 2000 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more. 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.

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. The film uses many quotations from the work of the peruvian poet césar vallejo as a recurring.