Film - Thursday 3rd Dec, The Studio, 4pm

You, the Living: A Swedish black comedy film written and directed by Roy Andersson

The film is an exploration on the "grandeur of existence," centered around the lives of an overweight woman, a disgruntled psychiatrist, a heart broken groupie, a carpenter, a business consultant, an elementary school teacher with emotional issues and her rug selling husband, among others. The cast is non-professional and alienating techniques such as presenting the characters in grim make-up and having them talk directly to the camera are extensively used.

Shot in an unconventional manner, it consists of a fluent succession of exactly 50 short sketches, most of them with a tragicomic undertone. Most of the sets were meticulous created and the shooting took three years to finish.

A fantasticly absurd and surreal film, i think you would find it hard not to laugh

-Robin