ORIGINAL TITLE
Du levande
2007
DIRECTOR
Roy Andersson
SCREENPLAY
Roy Andersson
PRODUCTION
Pernilla Sandström
CAST
Elisabet Helander, Björn Englund, Jessika Lundberg
DURATION
95 minutes
COUNTRY
Sweden
DCP
Original Swedish version with Italian subtitles
PLOT
Writer\director Roy Andersson combines understatement to create comedy with an off-key emotional pitch, and a visual clarity that suggests Matisse. His 2007 film is a series of vignettes that play like absurdist melodrama, comedy with an inner life and a stark, simple staging. Though the film is a group of episodes, You, the living, builds to a satisfying climax. “I love this films. They make me laugh, and think. But they are also art”, Iñárritu says. “It’s a film of such stunning visual power that it could hang in a museum. An impressionist painting. I still don’t understand how some of the lighting was achieved”.