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Songs from the Second Floor

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Original title: Sånger från andra våningen (Songs from the Second Floor)
Year: 2000
Running time: 98 min.
Country: Sweden
Director: Roy Andersson
Screenwriter: Roy Andersson
Cast: Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Bengt C.W. Carlsson, Torbjörn Fahlström, Rolando Núñez, Sten Andersson, Lucio Vucina, Per Jörnelius, Peter Roth, Klas-Gösta Olsson, Nils-Åke Eriksson, Hanna Eriksson, Tommy Johansson, Sture Olsson
Music: Benny Andersson
Cinematography: István Borbás, Jesper Klevenas
Producer: Co-production Sweden-Norway-Denmark;
Coproduction Office, Radio (DR), Norsk Rikskringkasting, Svenska Filminstitutet
Genre: Drama. Comedy | Black Comedy. Surrealism
Movie Groups: Living Trilogy
Synopsis: Roy Andersson's "Songs from the Second Floor" takes place in a small town, where a man named Karl burns down his own furniture store in an attempt to collect the insurance money. This sets off a chain of events in the town that transcend explanation as a chaos falls over the town inhabitants. As the town goes crazy and the streets are brought to a virtual standstill by a massive traffic jam, Karl comes to realize the absurdity and difficulty of leading a "normal" human life.

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Rankings Position

#52 Best Swedish Movies
#58 Best Nordic films of the 21st century
#112 Best Nordic Countries Films

Awards: 2001: British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): Nom. Best Int. Ind. Film - Foreign Lan.

2000: Cannes: Jury Prize

2000: Guldbagge Awards (Sweden): Best Film, Direction, Screenplay, Cinematography, Achievement

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Critics' reviews

"You have never seen a film like this before. You may not enjoy it but you will not forget it (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"It's a visual feast and often hilarious."

Jack Mathews: New York Daily News
"A heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic, the work of a genuine and singular artist."

Elvis Mitchell: The New York Times
"A devastating indictment of unbridled greed and materalism, made all the more relevant by the Enron and WorldCom scandals."

V.A. Musetto: New York Post
"Want to see something strange, funny, twisted, brilliant and macabre? Sure you do."

Desson Thomson: The Washington Post
"A brilliant, absurd collection of vignettes that, in their own idiosyncratic way, sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium."

Mark Caro: Chicago Tribune
"The film is depressive, slow, darkly funny, unyielding in its formal rigor, and unsettlingly beautiful. It's obviously not for everyone, but only because not everyone can meet its stare."

Ty Burr: Boston Globe
"Andersson creates a world that's at once surreal and disturbingly familiar; absurd, yet tremendously sad. The haunting score is by ABBA's Benny Andersson."

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39 My Favorite Swedish Movies (11)
72 My Top 10 Movies from 2000 (27)

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