Job Postings Writers Wanted: Argentina, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Romania, Spain, Sweden  
Welcome, Ioncinephiles! Subscribe

Film Listings

Wed Mar 17, 2010

Fri Mar 19, 2010

Wed Mar 24, 2010

Fri Mar 26, 2010

Wed Mar 31, 2010

Fri Apr 02, 2010

Fri Apr 09, 2010

Fri Apr 16, 2010

Wed Apr 21, 2010

Thu Apr 22, 2010

Fri Apr 23, 2010

Fri Apr 30, 2010

Fri May 07, 2010

Fri May 14, 2010

Fri May 21, 2010

Thu May 27, 2010

Fri May 28, 2010

Fri Jun 04, 2010

Fri Jun 11, 2010

Fri Jun 18, 2010

Wed Jun 23, 2010

Fri Jun 25, 2010

Wed Jun 30, 2010

Fri Jul 02, 2010

Sun Jul 04, 2010

Wed Jul 07, 2010

Fri Jul 09, 2010

Wed Jul 14, 2010

Fri Jul 16, 2010

Fri Jul 23, 2010

Fri Jul 30, 2010

Fri Aug 06, 2010

Fri Aug 13, 2010

Fri Aug 20, 2010

Fri Aug 27, 2010

Wed Sep 01, 2010

Fri Sep 10, 2010

Fri Sep 17, 2010

Fri Sep 24, 2010

Fri Oct 01, 2010

Fri Oct 08, 2010

Sun Oct 10, 2010

Fri Oct 15, 2010

You, the Living (2009)

REVIEWS

OTHER POSTERS

TRIVIA

RATE THIS MOVIE

86.5

COMMUNITY RATING

SPECS

  • Project Phase: Completed
  • Release Date: 2009-07-29 - NY and/or LA
  • Distributor(s): 
  • Film Genre(s): Dark Comedy
  • Country: Sweden

SYNOPSIS

This is an absurdist take on the everyday foibles of human nature. Andersson couples his iconic visual style (stationary shots, a monochromatic palette of grays and greens) with a meticulous eye for composition (compared by some critics to the work of German painters Otto Dix and Max Beckmann) to yield a brilliant succession of dreamlike tableaux: a bride and her electric guitar-playing groom sail along in a house moving like a train; a distraught man complains of his financial woes while his wife tries to make love to him; a drunken woman shouts “No one understands me” to a bar full of silent patrons; a man waiting in line to buy a train ticket changes queues repeatedly, to no advantage. Running the gamut from quotidian struggles to big philosophical questions of love, sympathy and purpose in an uncaring world, Andersson brings a blast of distinctive Nordic humor to our universal woes.

WATER COOLER TOPICS

Got an opinion or a scoop ? Have info on a film production shooting in your neck of the woods? Read a draft of the script ? Or want to comment on potential casting ? IONCINEMA.com's Water Cooler Topics is an area where you can discuss, contribute and share among your cinephile peers.

  • I. In Development: comment on the source material/script/pitch/storyline, prod co., producer ...hide comments

  • II. Pre Production: comment on the rumored or hired screenwriter, cast or director ...hide comments

  • III. Filming: comment on location sightings and/or add a link to early set pics ...hide comments

  • IV. Marketing: comment on the domestic and int. poster artwork, teasers, trailer ...hide comments

  • V. Reactions: seen an early test screening or festival screening? Box office Forecasts ...hide comments

ADD A COMMENT

 
 
    Remember my e-mail address


DIRECTOR(S)