Roy Andersson Songs From The Second Floor Stream

Swedish filmmaker roy andersson s celebrated and enigmatic film songs from the second floor his first feature film in twenty five years won the special jury prize at the cannes film festival in 2000 the songs of the film s title refer to andersson s artistic ruminations on the state of mankind from his office on the second floor of studio 24 in stockholm.

Roy andersson songs from the second floor stream.

Best of nashville in print advertise contact us. Songs from the second floor out now on dvd on demand the brilliantly offbeat worldview of swedish filmmaker roy andersson is depicted in a series of interconnected vignettes. 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 city full of directionless people. People trying to communicate searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things.

His distant screams and cries of anguish may seem humorous at first because of their dry annotations and blunt audacity but his wailing pleas soon creep into your soul. The world that roy andersson depicts as hilariously strange and melancholic as it is never. Directed by roy andersson. The film uses many quotations from the work of the peruvian poet césar vallejo as a recurring.

With lars nordh stefan larsson bengt c w. Guest lecture on roy andersson s songs from the second floor including an introduction to basic film analysis applied to songs from the second floor but using erik poppe s deusynlige as a point of. This track is featured at the end of. Songs from the second floor swedish.

We meet people in the city. Where are we humans going. Roy andersson s songs from the second floor is analogous to a rambling and insane homeless man on the side of the highway.