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Films Directed by Roy Andersson (Study Guide): You, the Living, Giliap, Songs from the Second Floor, Something Happened, a Swedish Love Story(English)

Films Directed by Roy Andersson (Study Guide): You, the Living, Giliap, Songs from the Second Floor, Something Happened, a Swedish Love Story(English)

          
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This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: You, the Living, Giliap, Songs From the Second Floor, Something Happened, a Swedish Love Story. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: You, the Living (Swedish: ) is a 2007 Swedish black comedy film written and directed by Roy Andersson. The film is an exploration on the "grandeur of existence," centered around the lives of an overweight woman, a disgruntled psychiatrist, a heartbroken groupie, a carpenter, a business consultant, an elementary school teacher with emotional issues and her rug selling husband, among others. The basis for the film is an old Norse proverb, "Man is man's delight," taken from Havamal in the Poetic Edda. The title comes from a quote in Roman Elegies by Goethe, which is also shown as a title card right in the beginning of the film: "Be pleased then, you the living, in your delightfully warmed bed, before Lethe's ice-cold wave will lick your escaping foot." Shot in an unconventional manner, it consists of a fluent succession of exactly 50 short sketches, most of them with a tragicomic undertone. The cast is non-professional and alienating techniques such as presenting the characters in grim make-up and having them talk directly to the camera are extensively used. The financing was troublesome and the shooting took three years to finish. The film won the Silver Hugo for Best Direction at the 2007 Chicago International Film Festival and has received positive reviews. There is no central plot, but some of the vignettes connect loosely. All the stories show the essential humanity of the characters and address themes of life, existence and happiness. The film makes repeated use of distinctive cinematic techniques. One of these is dreams and how they reflect the fears, feelings and desires of the ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=7661050


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156974711
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 54 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156974712
  • Publisher Date: 21 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: You, the Living, Giliap, Songs from the Second Floor, Something Happened, a Swedish Love Story
  • Width: 229 mm


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