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2012
Theatre
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Music
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Always been a fan but never seen them live. I was ecstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW!
London,
Evening Standard rating
Reader rating
Dir: Roy Andersson.
Cast: Jessica Lundberg, Elisabet Helander, Bjorn Englund
Description: Comical portrait of city life, stitching together unconnected stories of love, longing and desire in a community heading for disaster. A man dreams about pulling out the tablecloth from beneath a full dinner service without moving any of the crockery, and a lonely husband annoys his wife by playing his drums loudly in their tiny apartment. A primary school teacher suffers an emotional breakdown in front of her inquisitive pupils and an Arab hairdresser gives one racist customer a close shave he will never forget, especially with an important board meeting to prepare for.
Country: SWE/GER/DEN/FR/NOR. 2007. 93mins
One man and his dog: A dog gets dragged across the screen by an old man
Swedish director Roy Andersson’s follow-up to his wry Cannes prize-winner, Songs From the Second Floor, is another mordantly entertaining comment on the meaning of life — as near to Monty Python as a depressive Nordic bard can get.
It presents us with a succession of glum characters living out their lives in a dingy urban landscape.
A dog on a lead gets dragged haplessly across the screen by an old man. A psychiatrist worries about his finances while being straddled in bed by his Viking-helmeted wife.
An Arab barber revenges himself on a racist customer by cutting off all his hair. However embarrassing any situation appears, the onlookers simply ignore it.
If the director is a miserabilist who makes Bergman look like a regular happy chappie, at least his observation of us all is almost as good as that master’s.
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