Humankind's greatness, baseness, joy, sorrow, self-confidence, anxiety, desire to love and be loved.
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★★★★★
Roy Anderson's film 'You, The Living' comprises a series of fifty-odd sketches, snapshots and vignettes set in a Swedish city. Some characters are on screen for just a few second, whilst others appear in numerous scenes and are sometimes seen loitering in the...
★★★★★
There is no plot. There are no central characters. There are no moving cameras or close-ups. In fact, this film does not follow any of the conventional storytelling techniques used by mainstream film. However, Roy Andersson's Du Levande is a remarkable piece o...
★★★★★
This film isn't supposed to be funny, but it made me laugh.
It isn't designed to be sad, but my heart felt heavy through a number of the vignettes.
It isn't written as action adventure, but my pulse raced more than once.
Just like life, this movie doesn't m...
★★★★★
I laughed out loud several times during this film though give it a cursory glance and you would think it was something else altogether. I adore the pace and the way it slowly burns into you as you are presented these gobsmackingly beautiful tableaux. Andersson...
★★★★★
The Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson's latest film You, the Living is not easy to review. One of the reasons is that in his own words he has broken with the Anglo-Saxon tradition of story-telling, in all essence the template of most Western film productions. An...
