Songs from the Second Floor
2000 · Movie · 99 min · ★ 7.1 · 83% critics
A massive traffic jam becomes the backdrop for a Swedish city where everyday routines turn strange and unsettling. Through a chain of loosely connected moments, the film observes people grappling with work, faith, money, and a creeping sense of stagnation, mixing bleak humor with quiet despair.
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Details
- Original title
- Sånger från andra våningen
- Years
- 2000
- Release date
- 2000-10-06
- Language
- Swedish
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Critic score
- 83/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 (315 votes)
About
You may enjoy this if you like bleak, absurd, vignette-style stories that linger on modern malaise, similar to You, the Living or A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence; Not for you if you need a clear, fast-moving plot and easy laughs.
Pros: darkly funny vignettes; haunting surreal atmosphere; sharp social satire | Cons: very slow pace; disjointed, plot-light structure; can feel depressing
Themes
- poem
- insanity
- witness
- poet
- surrealism
- traffic jam
- apocalypse
- crucifix
- anarchic comedy
Awards & recognition
- Greta
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 2001 · nominated
Cast & crew
- LN
Lars Nordh
as Kalle
Stefan Larsson
as Stefan
Bengt C.W. Carlsson
as Lennart
- TF
Torbjörn Fahlström
as Pelle Wigert
- SA
Sten Andersson
as Lasse
- RN
Rolando Núñez
as The foreigner
- LV
Lucio Vucina
as The magician
- PJ
Per Jörnelius
as The sawed man
- PR
Peter Roth
as Tomas
- KO
Klas-Gösta Olsson
as The speechwriter
Directed by Roy Andersson