You, the Living

Name: You, the Living
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Music
Released: July 29, 2009
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 81

2009

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Palisades Tartan | Release Date: July 29, 2009 | Not Rated

Summary: You, the Living is a film about humankind, its greatness and its baseness, joy and sorrow, its self-confidence and anxiety, its desire to love and be loved. [Palisades Tartan]

Director: Roy Andersson

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Music

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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Roger Ebert

There’s joy in watching a movie like You, the Living. It is flawless in what it does, and we have no idea what that is. It’s in sympathy with its characters. It shares their sorrow, and yet is amused that each thinks his suffering is unique. Read full review

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A.O. Scott

The film is slow, rigorously morose and often painful in its blunt reckoning of disappointment and failure. It is also extremely funny. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Andersson has a one-of-a-kind style that not all viewers will appreciate. His humor is not at all like Hollywood’s. His is leisurely and cerebral — two words never heard in La La Land. Read full review

Staff [Not Credited]

Andersson’s movie reveals poetic ironies, surreal slapstick and melancholy truths, often all wrapped up together. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

You, the Living is a very funny film - though in the darkest possible way. It is a silent comedy, but with words. Read full review

Time Out London Dave Calhoun

You won’t know whether to laugh or cry. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

The ideologies underlying Andersson’s oft-astonishing succession of extreme wide-angle, vanishing-point tableaux are a decidedly acquired taste. Read full review

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