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Songs from the Second Floor (2000)

Original title: Sånger från andra våningen

dir: Roy Andersson

A man is standing in a subway cart, his face dirty with soot. In his right hand he carries a plastic bag with documents, or rather, the charred leftovers of them. In a corridor a man is clinging desperately to the legs of the boss who just fired him. He is screaming: "I've been here for thirty years!" In a coffee shop someone is waiting for his father, who just burned his furniture company for insurance money. Traffic jams and self-flagellating stock brokers are filling up the streets while an economist, desperate for a solution to the problem of work becoming too expensive, gazes into the crystal ball of a scryer. Everything and everyone are going somewhere but the goal and its meaning were forgotten on the way.

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FitFortDanga FitFortDanga wrote about Songs from the Second Floor

A thoughtful, comic indictment of corporate drudgery, bureaucratic indifference and personal disconnects. The tone is Buñuellian, a cross between Exterminating Angel and Phantom of Liberty. It's presented as a series of miserable (but funny) episodes, intermittently switching between a handful of main characters. The world is composed of cold bluish-grays and off-whites, and a delightful surrealism is maintained without ever getting so out of control that it unhinges the film.

10 stars

michuk michuk wrote about Songs from the Second Floor

The mankind is falling. Most decadent movie I've ever seen. Seems inspired by Bergman, Bunuel and Jodorovsky at the same time. A must-see one

9 stars