You, the Living (15)

Andersson's bleak Nordic humour will delight Kaurismaki fans

Director: Roy Andersson
Starring: Jessika Lundberg, Elisabeth Helander, Björn Englund
Sweden/Germany/Denmark/France/Norway, 2007, 1 hour 34 minutes, subtitles

Tue 31 March 8.00pm - Garway Village Hall

This wonderfully droll series of tragic-comic sketches features a range of washed-out characters given to boozing and playing brass band music and plagued by slapstick mishaps, loneliness and forlorn desires. Full of wry observation, the superb pacing and visual sense give added comic impact to the sheer randomness of much of what we see. With its emphasis on oddball depressive characters trying to make sense of their lives Andersson's (Songs from the Second Floor) bleak Nordic humour will delight Kaurismaki fans.