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Songs from the Second Floor
New Yorker Films
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Lars Nordh,
Stefan Larsson,
Bengt C.W. Carlsson,
Torbjörn Fahlström,
Sten Andersson,
Rolando Núñez,
Lucio Vucina,
and
Per Jörnelius
Composed of a series of immaculately staged tableaux, Songs From the Second Floor is a stylized black comedy-turned-nightmare. (Film Forum)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Roy Andersson
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Roy Andersson
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 23, 2004
Video: March 23, 2004
Theatrical: July 3, 2002
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| RUNNING TIME: |
98 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Denmark / Norway / Sweden |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Swedish (with English subtitles) |
Original Swedish title "Sånger från andra våningen"; Winner (tie), Special Jury Prize, 2000 Cannes Film Festival

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A collision at the intersection of farce and tragedy--the apocalypse as a joke on us.

100
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
In place of a conventional plot, this utterly unique Swedish movie offers a series of related episodes -- Some are funny, some are tragic, all are dreamlike and unpredictable, suggesting that the 21st century will be a lot weirder and wackier than we expect.

90
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Want to see something strange, funny, twisted, brilliant and macabre? Sure you do.

88
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
A brilliant, absurd collection of vignettes that, in their own idiosyncratic way, sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium.

88
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
"Songs" is a delight. It's a visual feast and often hilarious.

80
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Andersson creates a world that's at once surreal and disturbingly familiar; absurd, yet tremendously sad. The haunting score is by ABBA's Benny Andersson.

80
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
A heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic, the work of a genuine and singular artist.

80
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Often seems more old-fashioned than modern.

75
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
A devastating indictment of unbridled greed and materalism, made all the more relevant by the Enron and WorldCom scandals.

75
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The film is depressive, slow, darkly funny, unyielding in its formal rigor, and unsettlingly beautiful. It's obviously not for everyone, but only because not everyone can meet its stare.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
The film is like an Ingmar Bergman movie as realized by Monty Python: It's seriously gloomy about the loss of spirituality in the world, but at the same time rudely, sometimes hilariously, absurd.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Though the laughs in Songs From The Second Floor tend to stick in the throat, they're also cathartic and oddly comforting, because the world outside the movie theater is bound to look cheerier than the one on the screen.

30
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Despite some deadpan, Jacques Tati-like orchestration and occasional sight gags, there's no real pleasure in the game -- Songs From the Second Floor is more absurd than funny.

30
Variety
Derek Elley
Rapidly wears out its welcome after the first few reels to finish up as a perplexing objet d'art.


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