- Category: Video » Drama » Drama, General
- Format: DVD Learn more about the DVD format using Tower WIKI.
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- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC/EAN: 717119825447
- WAPI (Tower ID): 107035576
- Studio: New Yorker Video
- Release Date: March 23, 2004
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #23550 in Movies (See Top 100 Movies Bestsellers)
- #4137 in Drama (See Top 100 Drama Bestsellers)
- #4136 in Drama, General (See Top 100 Drama, General Bestsellers)
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Product Description
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Review
Chicago Sun-Times, 04/22/2001, p.1, "...Astonishing....A surrealistic vision of a big city in meltdown..." New York Times, 07/03/2002, p.E15, "...SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR, an example of an unsung genre, is a heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic, the work of a genuine and singular artist..."
Title Note
Swedish Theatrical Release: 2000.
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In this surreal Swedish film from director Roy Andersson, a toxic green light colors each scene, setting the story in a bleak post modern world. The economy is failing, as is the stability of the human psyche, and even as the story relies heavily on order and structure, rooting itself in organized settings--the train station, the board room table, the hospital, the business conference--the action and dialogue strays into a nonsensical, backwards, impossible place. Darkly comic and relentlessly bizarre, SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR is like a Fellini film in slow motion, or a David Lynch film drained of color, or an abstract Monty Python comedy. Structured around the ominous statement "Beloved is the one who sits down" by the poet Cesar Vallejo, the movie is organized into vaguely related vignettes, all occurring in adjacent locations at almost the same point in time, and occasionally overlapping. The characters in Andersson's film wear business suits. They are sickly pale, and very puffy and unhealthy looking. They wander aimlessly but with instinctive purpose, perpetually suffering bad luck, and following daily routines that often end in gruesome injury, drunkenness, death, or just plain weirdness. A badly burned man who has just set his office building on fire rides the subway expressionless, while all the other passengers sing opera loudly and in unison. A failed crucifix salesman angrily unloads a truck full of Jesuses at the dump, flinging the crosses into a giant ghastly pile. A young girl is selected by a group of executives to be sacrificed, and at a ceremony attended by clergymen, businessmen, and hundreds of other officials, she is pushed off a cliff. This artistic, visually engrossing, and conceptually awe-inspiring film competed at Cannes in 2001.
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