"''Painterly'' is an overused adjective for films, but here''s one where it makes sense," writes Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian. "I don''t know of any filmmaker whose work gives the viewer so much incentive and indeed leisure to examine the background of a shot. You, the Living is a very funny film - though in the darkest possible way. It is a silent comedy, but with words."

"To call it deadpan is barely to hint at [Roy] Andersson''s style, which he mostly applies to the world of commercials (watch them on YouTube, they''re hilarious)," writes Dave Calhoun in Time Out. "But just when you think the only answer to Andersson''s view of the world - alcoholic couples; depressed psychiatry experts; a girl searching for a disappeared rock star who shows her a modicum of affection - is to throw yourself under one of Stockholm''s trams, he unleashes a set-piece that has you marvelling at its choreography or wondering at the sheer ridiculousness of life."

Updated through 3/30. Posted by: dwhudson    Source

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