The Songs From The Second Floor

With lars nordh stefan larsson bengt c w.

The songs from the second floor.

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. Where are we humans going. 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.

This track comes from the roy andersson movie songs from the second floor for which benny andersson wrote some music. People trying to communicate searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things. 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. Songs from the second floor swedish.

The film uses many quotations from the work of the peruvian poet césar vallejo as a recurring. It metaphorically satirises a society at crossroads. 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.

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 2000 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more. This track is featured at the end of.

Sånger från andra våningen is a swedish black comedy drama film which was released to cinemas in sweden on 6 october 2000 written and directed by roy andersson it presents a series of disconnected vignettes that together interrogate aspects of modern life. N ow in the uk after winning the special jury prize at.