The Songs From The Second Floor

With lars nordh stefan larsson bengt c w.

The songs from the second floor.

People trying to communicate searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things. This track is featured at the end of. The making and the cinematic content of songs from the second floor is a good example that these two characteristics is one of roy s two most important trademarks. The story of the film evolves partly around the head character kalle who s firm has being burned downed to the ground.

Where are we humans going. N ow in the uk after winning the special jury prize at. This track comes from the roy andersson movie songs from the second floor for which benny andersson wrote some music. A film poem inspired by the peruvian poet césar vallejo.

It metaphorically satirises a society at crossroads. Sånger från andra våningen is a swedish black comedy drama film which was released to cinemas in sweden on 6 october 2000 written and directed by roy andersson it presents a series of disconnected vignettes that together interrogate aspects of modern life. Directed by roy andersson. Songs from the second floor swedish.

We meet people in the city. Songs from the second floor 2000 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more. In a sour gray city filled with pale drunken salarymen and parading flagellants everything goes wrong pain is laughed at businesses fail traffic seizes up and a girl is made into a human sacrifice to save a corporation. The film uses many quotations from the work of the peruvian poet césar vallejo as a recurring.

The closing sequence of songs from the second floor should reverberate in anyone s mind for a long while. Roy andersson s songs from the second floor is a collision at the intersection of farce and tragedy the apocalypse as a joke on us.