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- 2009
- Not Rated
- Palisades Tartan
- 1 h 35 m
- 2009
- Not Rated
- Palisades Tartan
- 1 h 35 m
Summary You, the Living is a film about humankind, its greatness and its baseness, joy and sorrow, its self-confidence and anxiety, its desire to love and be loved. [Palisades Tartan]
Directed By: Roy Andersson
Written By: Roy Andersson
- 2009
- Not Rated
- Palisades Tartan
- 1 h 35 m
- 2009
- Not Rated
- Palisades Tartan
- 1 h 35 m
You, the Living
7.0
Summary You, the Living is a film about humankind, its greatness and its baseness, joy and sorrow, its self-confidence and anxiety, its desire to love and be loved. [Palisades Tartan]
Directed By: Roy Andersson
Written By: Roy Andersson
Top Cast
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
81
93% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
7% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
81
93% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
7% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The film is slow, rigorously morose and often painful in its blunt reckoning of disappointment and failure. It is also extremely funny.
Perhaps my preference is best explained this way: I’d rather live in the world of You, the Living. Songs from the Second Floor is the one I’d rather watch.
Results are painfully amusing, frequently random and occasionally laugh-out-loud hilarious.
You won’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Recalling the work of Jacques Tati, this is a grim but amusing and ultimately successful effort.
Andersson particularly delights in left-outs: the guy who can’t squeeze into the bus stop during a downpour; the natty little suitor getting his bouquet smashed in a slamming door. The sum total is the reflection of a worldview -- sad sack, bordering on “Everybody Hurts” black-velvet sad-clown bathos -- rather than any narrative.
The ideologies underlying Andersson’s oft-astonishing succession of extreme wide-angle, vanishing-point tableaux are a decidedly acquired taste.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
7.0
75% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
17% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
8% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
7.0
75% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
17% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
8% Negative
1 Rating
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Production Company
Roy Andersson Filmproduktion,
ARTE,
Arte France Cinéma,
C More Entertainment,
Coproduction Office,
Posthus Teatret,
Spillefilmkompaniet 4 1/2,
Style Jam,
Sveriges Television (SVT),
Thermidor Filmproduktion,
WDR/Arte,
Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet,
Canal+,
Det Danske Filminstitut,
Eurimages,
Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen,
Nordisk Film & TV-Fond,
Norsk Filmfond
Release Date Jul 29, 2009
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Not Rated
Awards
Guldbagge Awards
• 4 Wins & 5 Nominations
Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Ghent International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
