Songs from the Second Floor

Songs from the Second Floor (Swedish: Sånger från andra våningen) is a 2000 Swedish film written and directed by Roy Andersson. It presents a series of disconnected vignettes that together interrogate aspects of modern life. The film use many quotes from the work of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo as a recurring motif. It is the first film in an unfinished trilogy ( "Du Levande" is the second film ). A man is standing in a subway cart, his face d... more

Songs from the Second Floor (Swedish: Sånger från andra våningen) is a 2000 Swedish film written and directed by Roy Andersson. It presents a series of disconnected vignettes that together interrogate aspects of modern life. The film use many quotes from the work of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo as a recurring motif. It is the first film in an unfinished trilogy ( "Du Levande" is the second film ). A man is standing in a subway cart, his face dirty with soot. In his right hand he carries a plastic bag with documents, or rather, the charred leftovers of them. In a corridor a man is clinging desperately to the legs of the boss who just fired him. He is screaming: "I've been here for thirty years!" In a coffee shop someone is waiting for his father, who just burned his furniture company for insurance money. Traffic jams and self-flagellating stock brokers are filling up the streets while an economist, desperate for a solution to the problem of work becoming too expensive, gazes into... less