You The Living - film review
Lacking a narrative thread, this series of occasionally comic scenes, featuring a cast of melancholy Scandinavians some of whose lives briefly overlap, skilfully charts the minutiae of ordinary life, and the hopes and disappointments contained therein.
Washed-out greys and pastel colours fill every shot, contributing to the downbeat feel of the film, and the contrast between the clean elegant public spaces depicted in the exterior shots and the dingy apartments inhabited by the characters hints at an underlying conflict between the public and interior lives of the protagonists.
Beautiful imagery, and stirring music courtesy of the 'Louisiana Brass Band'; essential viewing.