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