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03/28/08
You, The Living (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 16 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 7.8/10
Rated: 15
Runtime: 90 mins
Theatrical Release: 28-03-2008
Genre: Foreign Films
Director: Roy Andersson
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1 - 17 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top Critic
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 Critic
Andersson’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
Viewers who stick with it will be rewarded by an arresting tapestry that is considerably more than the sum of its parts.
03/28/08
Top Critic
The meaning of life just might be hidden here… only don’t expect to find it on a first viewing.
03/28/08
Top Critic
Recalling the work of Jacques Tati, this is a grim but amusing and ultimately successful effort.
03/27/08
Top Critic
Isn't quite the masterpiece it sets itself up as, but has lots going for it.
03/27/08
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
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05/31/07
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
A 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
Jacques Tati’s puckish humor meets Ingmar Bergman’s angst in this erratic, eccentric gem.
04/17/08
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
It's always the movies that seem the least like movies that are the truest to life.
10/13/07
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
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