Swedish Film 'You, The Living' at the Facets in Chicago

Posted by Susanna at 7:11 AM, Aug 28, 2009 (Comments)

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CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL Film Festival Award Winning Film "You, The Living" by Swedish director Roy Andersson is now being shown at the Facets Cinémathèque in Chicago through September 3.

ANDERSSON CAPTURES the daily banalities of life with precision and wit, and the film is a surreal manual on how to behave around others. "You, The Living" consists of numerous vignettes shot in single long takes depicting a handful of sad sack neighbors entrenched in dingy despair while buoyed by absurdist deadpan humor. Propelled by musical interludes, Andersson's film affirms its characters, and thus our own human existence with simple beauty and a devilish grin.

A.O. SCOTT WROTE in The New York Times that the film is "extremely funny" and "works in the comic tradition of Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati."

FOR INFORMATION, visit www.facets.org or call 773.281.9075. Show times are Mondays-Fridays, 7 & 9 p.m., Saturdays -Sundays, 3, 5, 7 & 9 p.m. through September 3. Tickets are $9 for general admission, and free for Facets members. Facets is located at 1517 W. Fullerton Ave.

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