TIFF Reviews
You, the Living
Roy Andersson
(92’, Sweden)
**1/2
Roy Andersson’s latest boasts many of the same attributes as his remarkable 2000 feature, Songs from the Second Floor—black, deadpan humour; long, single takes; drab, claustrophobic sets; precision-point compositions; morose characters, always with a deathly pallor—but it falls well short of that film’s riveting apocalyptic burlesque. Here, Andersson’s non-sequitur scenes—involving a lovelorn teenager, an overworked psychiatrist, an improbable brass band—add to up to little beyond their own individual punchlines. And even those start to vanish midway through the film. The result comes to resemble less a fully realized film than just a collection of the award-winning commercials for which the director is famous. But the only thing it’s selling is a vision of life that’s a now-predictable blend of Monty Python and Ingmar Bergman. (JM)
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