Lotterywest Festival Films :: You The Living

You The Living

Director: Roy Andersson · 92min · M
In Swedish with subtitles

A funny, poetic and warm-hearted film confirming Andersson’s status as one of cinema’s true originals. It is about human beings – our greatness and misery, our joy and sorrow, self-confidence and anxiety and the desire to laugh and to cry, and to love and be loved.
 
Comprising stark, mordantly funny vignettes that portray people who are desperate for others to acknowledge them yet are blind to anyone’s pain but their own, the message is simple – living is so complicated that the only thing that can save us is our sense of humour.

Silver Hugo for Direction, Chicago Film Festival 2007 Best Director, Fantasporto 2008 Georges Delerue Prize, Flanders Film Festival 2008 Best Film, Director and Screenplay, Guldbagge Awards 2008

Short film screening first (Somerville only) Clouds / Western Australia
Director: Will Faulkner · 15min · PG
A young boy is lost in the bush and uses his vivid imagination to get back home safely. Produced with the assistance of the Film & Television Institute (WA), ScreenWest and Lotterywest.

Listen to >> John from Wembley review You the Living with Russell Woolf on 720 ABC Perth's Drive program

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Roy Andersson is a comic genius, halfway between Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati and Ingmar Bergman
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This is a compelling film from an original director whose view of the world may at first seem to be bleak but, in the end, provides hope for the resilience of the human condition. Not to be missed by any lover of cinema ****
David Stratton, The Australian

Supported By

  • Lotterywest
  • The University of Western Australia
  • The West Australian
  • Edith Cowan University
  • Watershed Premium Wines
  • The Waterboys
  • Must Winebar
  • ABC 720

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16 Feb–22 Feb

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    Savour 132 fabulous nights of the best world cinema under the stars at the magnificent picture garden, the Somerville Auditorium. Direct from international festivals, all the films are first release and exclusive to the Perth Festival. What better way to spend an evening than picnicking with friends before the sun sets and the silver screen lights up?

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