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Aro Recommended You the Living

 

Sweden 2007, 95 minutes
Dir. Roy Andersson
In Swedish with English subtitles
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama / Black Comedy

 

Aroview: Master of the painstaking, deadpan vignette, Roy Andersson, continues his singular and obsessive vision with this absurdist comedy of malaise.

Steadfast in style and apocalyptic mood, dir. Andersson could be accused of merely rehashing SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR’s unmistakable design: of lifeless interiors and powder-faced lost souls, seemingly shot in laboratory conditions. The remarkable and compulsive visuals though are matched with genuinely bright and funny moments that cut through the meticulous art direction and ironic doom and gloom. Especially impressive among its windows into Swedish depression: an extended dream sequence in which a dreary shoe-box apartment transforms into a carriage on a train!

NZ International Film Festival 2007

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DVD Features

  • audio commentary
  • aspect ratio: 16:9
 

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