Songs from the Second Floor
Aroview: Various rotund men of retirement age face personal crises in a series of unsettling, stylised vignettes that could be collectively read as an absurdist parable of millennial doom and middle age despair.
Obsessively composed over four years by dir. Roy Andersson, this is determinedly non-conformist in theme and execution, deliberately photographed in greyish-green hues and without a single ‘close-up’. It’s a film of fascinating, bleak moments, though its success as a whole is openly left to the eye of the adventurous beholder.
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4 stars (Very Good) One thing I learnt watching the films of one of the masters of visual comedy - Jacques Tati - was that it was necessary to pay attention to the little things and to those particularly in the background of a scene. Its likewise with this film. ~Tubbs
4 stars (Very Good) 'It's not easy being human.' ~Shorty
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