Dubbed “one of the best films of this century, so far,” by San Francisco Film Historian David Thompson and currently rated 100% on RottenTomatoes.com Roy Andersson’s (SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR) latest cinematic “masterpiece” YOU, THE LIVING will make its DVD debut January 12th 2010 – following a successful theatrical run earlier this year.
The soft oompahs of the tuba (in a score composed by Benny Andersson of ABBA) provide the perfect background music for the gauche and self-conscious characters in YOU, THE LIVING, a compilation of stirring vignettes about the human being and our capacity for greatness and failures and all of the comedic and tragic moments that we all experience along the way. One woman claims that no one underst and s her to the muffled protests of her lover and her mother, while a young groupie is in constant search for her boyfriend at a bar that’s seemingly always about to close. As in Andersson’s short films and previous features, references to human catastrophe and horrible wrongdoings abound and his biting humor is evident in every scene.
