Toronto. You, the Living.

"I wish I had time to point out everything great about You, the Living," writes J Robert Parks. "I know that part of my love of [Roy] Andersson is that his worldview matches my own, but how can you not like a movie as carefully and beautifully constructed as this one?"

"A self-deprecating and existential downer about the monotony of day-to-day life in present day Stockholm, the film follows countless individuals who suffer from an array of social dysfunctions and personal crises," writes Ali at Cutting Room Reviews. "Andersson's work is surely attention-grabbing from the start - the film never quite settles on a singular tone, instead straddling the line between poking fun at these bizarre creatures and also expressing great sympathy for their plights. And yet, the problem is not the constant oscillating wildly between these registers. It is the reliance on visual gags and one-note jokes to stitch together the wildly disparate stories that soon works to undermine the film."

"To me, You, the Living is a clear case of diminished returns, despite a handful of brilliant sequences," writes Scott Tobias at the AV Club.

Earlier: Reviews from Cannes.

Posted by dwhudson at October 3, 2007 5:22 AM