this and which be show dub in italian at a rome cinema ( not as bad a it sound ) after be present at the rome film festival and be very much an art film and a festival film and guarantee to charm and delight such audience for it distinctive style and droll humor while ability to draw comedy from the suffering of others while appeal and cheery music while spot on performance while override sweetness and humanity but doom and because of it oddity and lack of a compelling story line and to leave average audience wonder what theyre watch it for and why anyone admire it and how it even get make . andersson give u almost a series of dry skit . run through them be various theme . money represent a guy at the next table ( waldemar nowak ) nick the wallet of a rich bore talk on a cell phone in a restaurant over a glass of brandy and then go and order a set of posh suit make to order while a deadbeat son call his celebrated father away from an elaborate gathering to beg him for one more loan . a shrink worry aloud about his depleted investment while his wife hump him in bed wear only a shiny viking helmet . depression represent an elementary teacher ( jessica nilsson ) break down in class because her husband have call her a harpy while the rug salesman spouse ( pär fredriksson ) collapse before client because he call her that . several men have depress dream . but hey this be sweden . isn not everybody depress . love problem represent a fat bohemian couple be perpetually break up while a girl groupie have fantasy about a lead guitarist and micke ( eric bäckman ) . wife slam door when their husband start to practice their instrument . ( music too be obviously a unifying theme . besides the dash guitarist there a tuba and a drum player whore in a dixierland band and also play in march and funeral . every scene have an add lilt from the music and which niftily link one sequence with another . ) a rag storm outside the window of many scene and violent rain and people out in it and thunder so loud it sound like a battle rag across the land . this also unify the tone and give the impression various scene be happen on the same dauntingly tempestuous day . andersson be a master of visual composition and the static middle distance shot and the film have a foggy gray green look engineer by dp gustav danielsson that perfect because it evoke the gloom of a swedish winter but also twinkle with the subtle color of the director wit and which end every scene with a smile . one almost never know drabness could be so beautiful . ( or perhaps one do represent alexcanr sokurov creates such effect sometimes in very different context . ) within scene and in the film a a whole there a kind of stillness that come out of the visual style and the pacing of scene and and the detached humanism of the overall outlook . there something about a fully master style that calm and reassure . not everything work equally well . one may feel impatient with the succession of barely relate scene and which read too much sometimes like the work of a saturday night live writer in need of prozac . since some scene plainly move you or draw a laugh and it obvious that others fall a little flat . but some scene be real zinger and and one obviously triumphant climax of pure magic be a dream described and then visualize dream be another important thread ) in which the girl groupie imago herself in a wedding dress newly marry to her fey guitarist ideal and who play a delicate series of riff while a crowd of admirer gather outside a big window . the viewpoint switch to outside and the window slide slowly away a if the building the dream newlywed look out of be a train move out of a station to take them to their honeymoon . it a fresh and subtle and and rather sublime effect . eventually one may feel everything in you the living ( du levande ) be a dream and include the recur scene where the barman be always strike a bronze bell and announce last order time and whereupon all the torpid customer rise from their table and go up to get one more drink . an italian reviewer call this a small and great film and and that right . it limit itself in a dozen way and but there be greatness in it . roy andersson be a little master ( like some medieval miniaturist ) of the inner comedy of scandanavian gloom and and this be a film unlike any other . show this year a a cannes un certain regard selection and this be also the swedish entry for the 2007 best foreign oscar . hard to say what bergman would think and but andersson work with him while be famous for his elaborately produce tv commercial and some of which one can see on youtube . bergman call them the best commercial in the world . it will be interesting to see if this director and whose craft be as subtle a his viewpoint and will start work in longer segment some time . meanwhile and any good film buff really need to get a look at this . schadenfreude isn not quite the right word . that mean delight in the misery of others . andersson be teach u to delight in the misery of all of u .