Sånger från andra våningen 2000

Critics score:
88 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Depressive, slow, darkly funny, unyielding in its formal rigor, and unsettlingly beautiful. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: This is wild surreal stuff, but brilliant and the camera just kind of sits there and lets you look at this and its like you're going from one room to the next and none of them have any relation to the other. Read more

Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: A brilliant, absurd collection of vignettes that, in their own idiosyncratic way, sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: A heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic, the work of a genuine and singular artist. Read more

Michael Booth, Denver Post: Let your literal, linear self take a chance on Songs From the Second Floor. Andersson is a philosopher with a brilliant eye for composing his ideas on the big screen. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Like an Ingmar Bergman movie as realized by Monty Python: It's seriously gloomy about the loss of spirituality in the world, but at the same time rudely, sometimes hilariously, absurd. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: You may not enjoy it but you will not forget it. Read more

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Mike D'Angelo, Time Out: At once wickedly funny and deeply disturbing, Andersson's deadpan, apocalyptic tone poem conjures up an exquisitely hermetic vision of mankind at the final buzzer. Read more

Derek Elley, Variety: Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Easier to respect than enthuse over, Andersson's rigorous personal vision is not only distanced but distancing. Read more