Songs from the Second Floor

A series of absurdist vignettes set in a nameless, gridlocked modern city teetering on the edge of an unspecified apocalypse. A man burns down his furniture shop for the insurance. A magician saws a spectator in half with irreversible results. A crowd of businessmen flagellate themselves through the streets. Roy Andersson's return to fiction filmmaking after a 25-year silence is a deadpan meditation on capitalism, suffering, and the human capacity for self-inflicted misery.

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