Du levande hadde USA-premiere i går. Her er utdrag fra noen av anmeldelsene:
New York Times: «He exploits the comic potential of certain musical instruments (the banjo, the sousaphone and the bass drum, most notably) and the incongruous music of thunder, machinery and the Swedish language. Much of the dialogue is spoken directly into the camera, as people, mostly played by nonprofessional, plain-looking actors, catalog their woes or recount their dreams. These are dramatized with somber care, and they are no more inscrutable or haunting than the waking reality they punctuate.» Les resten av anmeldelsen.
Filmcritic.com: «At one point, a pack of commuters get off a train destined for Lethe — Latin for forgetfulness — and stand in the torrential rain as it moves on. Part of the film’s hypnosis comes from this disavowal of any meaningful truth in realism, a style that Andersson himself practiced in the 1970s when he began making films. Living certainly is an eerie film and even, at moments, a haunting one, but it does not strike me as depressing. The bartender in the film is known to say, «Tomorrow is another day.» Whether or not that is a condemnation is really a matter of opinion.» Les resten av anmeldelsen.
The Village Voice: The sum total is the reflection of a worldview—sad sack, bordering on «Everybody Hurts» black-velvet sad-clown bathos—rather than any narrative. The return to a barroom at last call is a key refrain. Any available sunlight is a wan wash. Workplaces give the stale smell of upcoming bankruptcy. Andersson’s models are largely the lumpen middle-aged and senile homunculi, a catalog of baldness patterns. The notable exception is a twentyish girl, seen getting herself picked up by the aloof, extravagantly coiffed frontman of the Black Devils, then wandering about, crying over her abandonment in jilted morning-aftermath. You, the Living, which slips into visualized dreamlife, later shows her reverie of rock-star domesticity in a bridal suite that one only gradually notices is gliding over the countryside, her groom ringing out a dulcet wedding solo when they pull into a station crowded with well-wishers. Les resten av anmeldelsen.
