You, the Living

Life is a parade of absurdist despair and odd, fleeting beauty in Roy Andersson’s surreal, deadpan vision of existence as a kind of endlessly looping, tragicomic limbo. Unfolding through fifty bleakly humorous vignettes, YOU, THE LIVING presents us with an array of everyday sad sacks—including a jaded psychiatrist, a young woman fantasizing about romance with a rock star, and a man beset by menacing visions of bomber planes—whose dreams, fears, and frustrations are glimpsed through Andersson’s singular, static style, which turns seemingly banal environments into marvels of visual invention and painterly detail.

Starring Jan Wikbladh, Elisabet Helander, Jessika Lundberg