Some of the sketches don't really work or don't blend with their cousins, but the snapshot approach means they are short.
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08/03/08
You, the Living (2009)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:34
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: Composed of humorous sketches of human behavior, Roy Andersson's You, the Living is an eccentric but highly entertaining and unforgettable work.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Film Forum is proud to present the U.S. theatrical premiere of Roy Andersson’s You, The Living, an absurdist take on the everyday foibles of human nature. Andersson couples his iconic visual style... [More]
Director: Roy Andersson
Reviews for You, the Living
Top CriticA cold soup mix of Buster Keaton, David Lynch, Jerry Lewis and Terry Gilliam, hawking deadpan jokes as well as chilly, disheartening mean streaks in his blocky, deep-space single takes.
06/07/08
this litany of human disconnection, misery, frustration and despair... would be an almost unbearably bleak mosaic of our living deaths, were it not for Andersson's profound appreciation of Chaplin's observation that comedy is tragedy seen in long-shot.
03/21/08
Andersson is radically different from anyone else, with a technical, compositional rigour that puts other movie-makers and visual artists to shame.
03/28/08
Top CriticIt's always the movies that seem the least like movies that are the truest to life.
10/13/07
Andersson is, at heart, an expert absurdist; to him, there is meaning in the meaningless and salvation in the ridiculous
07/28/09
You won’t know whether to laugh or cry.
03/27/08
A morosely comic symphony on the meaning (or is that meaninglessness?) of life, Roy Andersson's You, the Living can be seen as a gentler companion piece to his 2000 Cannes prize-winner, Songs From the Second Floor.
05/24/07
Top CriticAndersson’s movie reveals poetic ironies, surreal slapstick and melancholy truths, often all wrapped up together. The gloom gets a bit thick over the 92 minutes, but there are sequences here you will never forget.
03/28/08
a surreal still life that provokes the audience to find the absurdity rather than the tragedy
10/04/09
Jacques Tati’s puckish humor meets Ingmar Bergman’s angst in this erratic, eccentric gem.
04/17/08
The meaning of life just might be hidden here… only don’t expect to find it on a first viewing.
03/28/08
The result is in some ways a comedy with a twist of the knife, and in other ways, a film like nobody else has ever made -- except for its director, Roy Andersson of Sweden. Andersson’s You, the Living is hypnotic.
08/20/09
Top CriticEssentially indescribable, You, the Living offers little help to anyone trying to get a handle on it in terms of a traditional narrative. But it can be quite funny if you're susceptible to Andersson's curious way of capturing the human comedy.
09/10/09
To complain that Andersson's skits are difficult or boring to sit through because they seem too close to the pain of daily life is to pay them some kind of a compliment.
01/10/08
“Keaton-esque” hardly begins to describe this brutally deadpan comedy by Swedish director Roy Andersson (Songs From the Second Floor), who seems to have translated the entire range of human misery into a loosely connected series of slapstick gags.
08/20/09
The lack of narrative cohesion eventually starts to wear, but the episodes and images are memorable.
08/14/09
Presenting the funniest movie of 2009 (so far). It's You, the Living, a collec tion of 50 absurdist sketches written and directed by Roy Andersson, a talented gentleman from Sweden.
07/29/09
Made of 50 short, stiff scenes of human behavior, shot as dispassionately as wildlife, Andersson is either stretching the definition of cinema or returning it to its roots
06/27/08
Surreal and absurd, yet oddly captivating and filled with a dry, sardonic sense of humor, stunning visuals along with provocative critiques of modern society.
07/30/09
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