You, the Living
Comedy, Drama, Music
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2007
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In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.
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Details
Runtime:
93 min
Release date:
21 Sep 2007
Country:
DK, FR, DE, JP, NO, SE
Languages:
Swedish
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$1,843,810
Awards:
11 wins & 6 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
You, the Living suggests that we would do well to discover the joy we find in each other that so often goes along with the pain.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Sep 2009
fresh:
Essentially indescribable, You, the Living offers little help to anyone trying to get a handle on it in terms of a traditional narrative. But it can be quite funny if you're susceptible to Andersson's curious way of capturing the human comedy.
– John Hartl,
Seattle Times,
10 Sep 2009
fresh:
"Keaton-esque" hardly begins to describe this brutally deadpan comedy by Swedish director Roy Andersson (Songs From the Second Floor), who seems to have translated the entire range of human misery into a loosely connected series of slapstick gags.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
20 Aug 2009
fresh:
The result is in some ways a comedy with a twist of the knife, and in other ways, a film like nobody else has ever made -- except for its director, Roy Andersson of Sweden. Andersson's You, the Living is hypnotic.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
20 Aug 2009
fresh:
You, The Living, if only by virtue of a more intimate scale than Songs, benefits from a lightness of touch and even a thin sliver of optimism in some sequences.
– Scott Tobias,
AV Club,
30 Jul 2009