You, the Living

You, the Living

  • Director: Roy Andersson
  • Countries of origin: Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Japan
  • Language: Swedish
  • Release date: September 21, 2007
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: 啊!人生
  • "Du levande" is a comedy directed by Roy Andersson , starring Elisabeth Helander and Jörgen Nohall.
    The film tells about seemingly unconnected life fragments, either absurd or deviant, but together they tell a humorous tragicomedy story of love and being loved between people.

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    Details

    • Release date September 21, 2007
    • Filming locations Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
    • Production companies 4 1/2 Film, Arte France Cinéma, Canal+

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $21,438

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $6,924

    Gross worldwide

    $1,843,810

    Movie reviews

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    • By Kevin 2022-03-27 09:01:22

      Barren as me, great as Anderson.

      A few years ago, I watched Roy Anderson's "The Quietness of the Birds", but I didn't understand it. I watched his "Singing from the Second Floor" last year, but I was speechless by those very creative shots. I watched it tonight. His "You Are Alive" is also impressed by the flashing shots.

      Never know Sweden, but intuitively think that Roy Anderson is the most creative director in the Swedish film industry, no one. How much talent does it take to make a movie like this? The last time I...

    • By Theo 2022-03-27 09:01:22

      Just because the number of words in the short comment is too small, I only have five more words and it will not let me send it

      "No one understands me" It's incomprehensible between people, it's existentialism, I can't understand why you don't sleep on the balcony, sex is irrelevant to both parties, breaking dishes, court and execution, I think it's in Tribute to "The Outsider", I hope many people will watch it during the execution. The scene is slow and concise, the execution is first the "spectator", and then they are found eating popcorn, then to the electric chair, to the priest, and then to the prisoner to...

    • By Jaylin 2022-03-27 09:01:22

      "You Are Alive" Sculpture in the fairy tale world

      The black screen, the music sounded immediately, and the heart-warming symphony suddenly appeared in the small room like Grimm's fairy tale in front of him. All layers of green tones were psychedelic, and the real world outside the window was like the fun of pencil drawings. The whistle of the train, a man with frightened eyes looked at the camera and told you, at that moment, I seemed to be outside this fairy tale world, looking at the cold and cold world, what would happen to the...

    • By Quinn 2022-03-27 09:01:22

      Literary and heavy taste

      The Finnish master Aki Kaurismaki is good at expressing the state of life in the form of stories in a cold and soothing way. Jarmusch is good at drawing away from the story and describing life or artistic conception. The Swedish master Roy Anderson is good at using a cold and humorous way. , scattered plots, stiff and slow performances, fixed shots, and the repression and distress of life and soul are fully expressed.

      Anderson's feature-length films "Silence of the Branches", "Singing...

    • By Bailee 2022-03-27 09:01:22

      short comment

      Roy Anderson has established a more extreme personal style through these three films, not only in the language of the film, but also in the content of the film. The drama is dissolved, the narrative disappears, and there are only fragments that keep repeating the cruelty and sadness of life ("You Are Alive" is an exception; it also became the best of the three in my opinion. ). This way of filming may not reflect a director's control over a grand narrative, but it can indeed express what a...

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    • By Lizeth 2023-09-01 11:53:49

      Ok. I think I'm finally past the age of pretending to be B...Really felt bored by this kind of...

    • By Lois 2023-08-18 01:26:35

      I don't know how to evaluate it. . In short, it is a sad comedy that Antenna likes. Ah Nordic...

    • By Karelle 2023-05-01 15:33:03

      05-07-01 Cannes entry...

    • By Hans 2023-04-18 03:52:12

      Love the style, the director is a charming old...

    • By Karelle 2023-03-10 10:46:46

      Absurd, witty, cool tones and long takes, each scene is a superb video...

    Movie plot

    A small town in Sweden, with all kinds of seemingly ordinary and eccentric town residents. A fat aunt who screams "no one understands you" every day, a middle-aged uncle who was sentenced to death in an electric chair for sabotaging other people's banquets, a strange man who talks about losing money from bank funds while having sex, and a quarrel couple who hurts each other with unscrupulous words , listened to twenty-seven years of...
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    Background creation

    According to Swedish media reports on the 26th, 64-year-old Swedish director Roy Andersson's film "Du levande" (Du levande) was selected from 28 candidates and will represent Sweden at the 80th The Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film Award .
    Andersson's earlier film " Sånger från andra våningen ", which describes the living conditions of modern people, won the 2000 Cannes International Film Festival Jury Prize and the highest honor...
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    Movie quotes

    • Mia: Serving non-alcoholic beer with food that smells so good. It's torture!

      Uffe's mother.: I only want what's best for you.

      Mia: Best! Is this what's best for me? Enduring this damned existance... with all the shit and deceit and wickedness and staying sober? How can you expect or even want a single poor bugger to put up with it without being drunk? It's inhuman. Only a sadist would demand that.

    • The psychiatrist: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

      [examines the large stack of patient's files]

      The psychiatrist: I am a psychiatrist. I have been for 27 years. I'm completely worn out. Year after year, listening to patients who aren't satisfied with their lives, who want to have fun, who want me to help them with that - it wears you out, I can tell you. My life isn't exactly a lot of fun either. People demand so much. That's the conclusion I've drawn after all these years. They demand to be happy, at the same time as they are egocentric, selfish, and ungenerous. Well, I would like to be honest. I would like to say that they are quite simply mean, most of them. Spending hour after hour in therapy, trying to make a mean person happy... There's no point. You can't do it. I've stopped doing it. These days, I just prescribe pills. The stronger, the better.

    • Anna: Forgive those who only think of themselves. Forgive those who are greedy and cheap. And those who deceive and cheat or grow rich by paying miserable wages. Dear lord, forgive them. Forgive them. And Lord, forgive those who humiliate and desecrate. Forgive those who torture and kill. Forgive those who bomb and destroy cities and villages. Forgive those who are dishonest, those who lie and are false. Forgive governments who withhold the truth from the people. Dear Lord, forgive them. Forgive those who are heartless, merciless, and quick to pass judgment. Please Lord, forgive them. Forgive courts that pass sentences which are too harsh or convict the innocent. Forgive them.

      The minister: Anna... We have to close and lock up now.

      Anna: Forgive newspapers and TV channels that mislead. That distract attention from that which is important. Dear Lord, forgive them.

      The minister: There now, Anna. We have to close and lock up now.

      Anna: Dear Lord, forgive them. Forgive them.