You, The Living (Andersson, 2007): Cinema Museum, 7.30pm
This 35mm presentation, as part of the Painted Skies season, includes an introduction by season curator Bruno Savill De Jong
Painted Skies is a film season celebrating fake backgrounds, spotlighting films with innovative set design that reminds us of their artificiality. This season was curated by Bruno Savill De Jong as part of the National Film and Television School (NFTS). Find more info at their website for Painted Skies and follow them on Instagram (@paintedsky_films) and Twitter (@paintedskyfilm).
Chicago Reader:
“Keaton-esque” hardly begins to describe this brutally deadpan comedy by Swedish director Roy Andersson (Songs From the Second Floor),
who seems to have translated the entire range of human misery into a
loosely connected series of slapstick gags. His black humor is
impressively layered, each layer darker than the last: when a joker at a
family banquet insists on performing that old parlor trick of yanking
the tablecloth out from under the dishes, he not only shatters a huge
collection of crystal and china but also exposes a vintage dining table
inlaid with swastikas. Andersson’s building block is a static long shot
so solidly composed it suggests a panel in a comic strip; the central
figure is often encased in his own suffering, and sometimes additional
laughs come from a background figure surveying his despair in
openmouthed bewilderment. I laughed so hard I hurt—or was it the other
way around.
JR Jones
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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