You, the Living (2007) NYT Critics' Pick

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Bjorn Englund in the Swedish film “You, the Living,” in which much of the dialogue is spoken directly into the camera.
July 29, 2009
Life: Perplexing, Painful, Precious
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: July 29, 2009

Life is a puzzle without a solution, a series of bleak, frustrating moments shadowed by the guaranteed absurdity of death. This, more or less, is the lesson — or perhaps the premise — of “You, the Living,” the new film by the Swedish director Roy Andersson. The film is slow, rigorously morose and often painful in its blunt reckoning of disappointment and failure. It is also extremely funny. More