you and the living ( 2007 ) mordant . i have never write that word before but it come to mind here . let me look it up . well and it part of it corrosive and but also funny a heck . so corrosively funny . this be a dour film and for sure and with so much dry dry dry wit and quirky humor it impossible not to like it on some level . film in a very spare style and often with a static camera and really balanced and stable composition and like theater stage and we see a short enactment occur . but that make it seem ordinary which it be not . ordinary life be show to be frumpy and ironic and delightful and coy and and depress . and impossible . we and the living and must live and and since be alive and we may as well take note . something like that . i think it be ebert who say you find yourself laugh and do not know why . exactly . and the promo material somewhere say it be a cross between bergman and monty python and and what they mean be it have the dry and silent and probe look of ingmar berman famous swedish film and but it have the zany and somehow touching element of the british comedian . i would say and definitely and definitely watch at least half an hour of this . there be part of me that think i be through by then the rest continue in a similar assemblage of little skit and moment and and they do gradually evolve and but there be no great plot to follow or climax of the usual kind . there be some great moment later and even just the attention to the thunderstorm and which take u out of the mundane human event nicely . the filming be gorgeous in it classical control and almost like a series of gregory crewdson scene ( and outdo the photographer and actually ) . and the acting and with all it very ordinary and non glam folksiness and be right on . a startling and beautiful and odd experience .