You The Living 15

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Duration:
92 mins
Year produced:
2008
Director:
Roy Andersson
Cast:
Fred Anderson
Patrik Anders Edgren
Bjorn Englund

Swedish director Roy Andersson has spent much of his career making award-winning adverts in his home country – but You The Living is an example of his other role as the creator of weird and very wonderful movies which offer slices of ordinary life at their most extraordinary. A unique portrait of everyday people in an un-named Swedish town, it has exactly 50 scenes, each one as carefully composed as a painting and each shot in one take with the camera fixed in one position. It’s a film with a very understated sense of humour, and its sheer originality might have you confused at first - but we reckon that by the end, you’ll have fallen for its offbeat charms.

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