Songs from the Second Floor
(2000)
★ 7 IMDb · 322 votes
Year: 2000
Runtime: 99 мин
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Director: Roy Andersson
Cast: Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Bengt C.W. Carlsson, Torbjörn Fahlström, Sten Andersson, Rolando Núñez, Lucio Vucina, Per Jörnelius, Peter Roth, Klas-Gösta Olsson
Plot
A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.
A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his youngest son and his girlfriend. It is a film about big lies, abandonment and the eternal longing for companionship and confirmation.