Du levande

2007 [SWEDISH]

Action / Comedy / Drama / Music

14
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 98% · 42 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 17084 17.1K

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Plot summary

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

Director

Roy Andersson Photo
Roy Andersson

Top cast

Catharina Dahlin Photo
Catharina Dahlin as Philisophy guest
Bengt C.W. Carlsson Photo
Bengt C.W. Carlsson as CEO
Göran Holm Photo
Göran Holm as Man at the psychiatrist
Per Jörnelius Photo
Per Jörnelius as
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857.1 MB
1226*720
English 2.0
Not Rated
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24 fps
1 hr 33 min
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1.72 GB
1824*1072
English 5.1
Not Rated
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24 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 23

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jordan m 7 / 10

This trilogy as a whole didn't grip me

This trilogy as a whole didn't grip me the way it seems to have other people, but this installment is the best one and it really is quite good. It suffers from the same diminishing returns as the others where its premise of disconnected vignettes is just not strong enough to sustain a feature-length movie but several scenes in this one were genuinely funny and the half-hearted attempt at social commentary they put at the end was decent for what it was. The best part by far was the lighting; as a person who maxes out the brightness on every videogame I deeply appreciated them practically bleaching every scene with light. Also, this feels a little weird to even write, but the sound effects were noticeably good. Maybe it's because there wasn't much else to distract me from them but every sound effect was mixed well enough that it sounded like it came from the scene instead of being piped in. Anyway, even with some strong scenes it felt like they were dragging things out so as to make it to their 90-minute goal.
Reviewed by Simon T 8 / 10

Roy Andersson is the Jacques Tati of Swedish

Roy Andersson is the Jacques Tati of Swedish cinema. Drily bleakly funny, his films are almost plotless, a chain of surreal sequences, the camera locked off, his actors usually affectless when not screaming. In a grey city a collection of unhappy pale-faced citizens wrestle with the small vicissitudes of living. Even their dreams offer no solace. Are they even alive? Uniquely engrossing.
Reviewed by Petros T 6 / 10

Andersson knows how to create simultaneously naturalistic and

Andersson knows how to create simultaneously naturalistic and surreal scenes that are relatable, poetic and even life-affirming. "Du levande" has a lot of those and the result is not only eye-catching but also occasionally resonant and funny. Yet at the same time it's merely the sum of its parts and nothing more. The first twenty minutes are the strongest: as soon as it becomes apparent that the many vignettes will never come together to convey anything concrete, they start to lose their power.
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