SFFS Screen Presents:
You, the Living
- When
- Event has passed (Fri Sep 25, 2009 - Thu Oct 1, 2009)
- Cost
- $8 - $14
- Tags
- Movies, Foreign, Film Screenings
Description
You, the Living (Du levande, Sweden 2007, SFIFF 2008), Roy Andersson continues to display his unique take on humanity in this amalgamation of encounters and tableaux covering various facets of existence.A man awakens with a start as the soundtrack rumbles, spooked by a nightmare of bombers approaching. A grammar school teacher sobs in front of her students, stricken that her husband called her a hag. A woman on a park bench chases off her boyfriend with an angry cascade of self-pitying laments—then breaks into song.
One may detect the faintest echoes of Beckett and Pinter, leavened with a pinch of Ionesco and Tati. The casting of nondescript nonprofessionals with profoundly ordinary demeanors and deliveries enhances the effect. Andersson, a genuine iconoclast, almost never moves the camera, pinpointing his characters within a fixed frame to emphasize how stuck they are.
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