Songs from the Second Floor (2000) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Sånger från andra våningen (Songs from the Second Floor)
Year
2000
Running time
98 min.
Country
Sweden
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Bengt C.W. Carlsson, Torbjörn Fahlström, Rolando Núñez, Sten Andersson, Lucio Vucina, Per Jörnelius, Peter Roth, Klas-Gösta Olsson, Nils-Åke Eriksson, Hanna Eriksson, Tommy Johansson, Sture Olsson
Music
Cinematography
Producer
Co-production Sweden-Norway-Denmark;
Genre
Drama. Comedy | Black Comedy. Surrealism
Movie Groups
Synopsis
Roy Andersson's "Songs from the Second Floor" takes place in a small town, where a man named Karl burns down his own furniture store in an attempt to collect the insurance money. This sets off a chain of events in the town that transcend explanation as a chaos falls over the town inhabitants. As the town goes crazy and the streets are brought to a virtual standstill by a massive traffic jam, Karl comes to realize the absurdity and difficulty of leading a "normal" human life.
Rankings Position
Awards
2001: British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): Nom. Best Int. Ind. Film - Foreign Lan.
2000: Cannes: Jury Prize
2000: Guldbagge Awards (Sweden): Best Film, Direction, Screenplay, Cinematography, Achievement
Critics' reviews
- "It's a visual feast and often hilarious."
- "A heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic, the work of a genuine and singular artist."
- "A devastating indictment of unbridled greed and materalism, made all the more relevant by the Enron and WorldCom scandals."
- "Want to see something strange, funny, twisted, brilliant and macabre? Sure you do."
- "A brilliant, absurd collection of vignettes that, in their own idiosyncratic way, sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium."
- "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."
- "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."
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Ranking Lists Position
- 39 My Favorite Swedish Movies (11)
- 72 My Top 10 Movies from 2000 (27)
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