The Songs From The Second Floor

Songs from the second floor swedish.

The songs from the second floor.

This track comes from the roy andersson movie songs from the second floor for which benny andersson wrote some music. 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. Where are we humans going. N ow in the uk after winning the special jury prize at.

People trying to communicate searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things. This track is featured at the end of. The film uses many quotations from the work of the peruvian poet césar vallejo as a recurring. A film poem inspired by the peruvian poet césar vallejo.

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. With lars nordh stefan larsson bengt c w. We meet people in the city. 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 story of the film evolves partly around the head character kalle who s firm has being burned downed to the ground. The closing sequence of songs from the second floor should reverberate in anyone s mind for a long while. Songs from the second floor peter bradshaw peterbradshaw1 thu 15 feb 2001 21 29 est. Directed by roy andersson.

In a sour gray city filled with pale drunken salarymen and parading flagellants everything goes wrong pain is laughed at businesses fail traffic seizes up and a girl is made into a human sacrifice to save a corporation. It metaphorically satirises a society at crossroads.