The Songs From The Second Floor

The closing sequence of songs from the second floor should reverberate in anyone s mind for a long while.

The songs from the second floor.

It metaphorically satirises a society at crossroads. A film poem inspired by the peruvian poet césar vallejo. Songs from the second floor peter bradshaw peterbradshaw1 thu 15 feb 2001 21 29 est. Where are we humans going.

Songs from the second floor 2000 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more. N ow in the uk after winning the special jury prize at. 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. This track comes from the roy andersson movie songs from the second floor for which benny andersson wrote some music.

Haunted by the guilt of its past transgressions morally bankrupt after throwing spirituality on the rubbish heap and having sacrificed the future of its children to a misguided. Songs from the second floor which shared the special jury prize at the 2000 cannes film festival is an indescribably surrealistic examination of the pointlessness of modern life in a nameless. This track is featured at the end of. Directed by roy andersson.

We meet people in the city. The story of the film evolves partly around the head character kalle who s firm has being burned downed to the ground. People trying to communicate searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things. 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.

The film uses many quotations from the work of the peruvian poet césar vallejo as a recurring. Songs from the second floor swedish.