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 "Leaping from one arresting image to another, Songs from the Second Floor has all the enjoyable randomness of a very lively dream and so manages to be compelling, amusing and unsettling at the same time."
-- Michael Thomson, BBCI FILMS
"Parts seem like they were lifted from Terry Gilliam's subconscious, pressed through Kafka's meat grinder and into Buñuel's casings"
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
"This surreal Gilliam-esque film is also a troubling interpretation of Ecclesiastes. A rewarding work of art for only the most patient and challenge-hungry moviegoers."
-- Jeffrey Overstreet, LOOKING CLOSER
"The stunning, dreamlike visuals will impress even those viewers who have little patience for Euro-film pretension."
-- Steven Jenkins, CITYSEARCH
 "If this is cinema, I pledge allegiance to Cagney and Lacey."
-- Harry Guerin, RTE INTERACTIVE (DUBLIN, IRELAND)
"This is cruel, misanthropic stuff with only weak claims to surrealism and black comedy."
-- Daniel Eagan, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"At once wickedly funny and deeply disturbing, Andersson's deadpan, apocalyptic tone poem conjures up an exquisitely hermetic vision of mankind at the final buzzer."
-- Mike D'Angelo, TIME OUT NEW YORK
"A macabre and very stylized Swedish fillm about a modern city where all the religious and civic virtues that hold society in place are in tatters."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"The most ingenious film comedy since Being John Malkovich."
-- Jason Anderson, EYE WEEKLY
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-- Jonathan F. Richards, IN THE DARK
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"If you're in the mood to wallow in the emptiness of Western society, then Songs is certainly a mind-boggling piece of work."
-- Jim Slotek, JAM! MOVIES
"A masterpiece four years in the making."
-- David Perry, CINEMA-SCENE.COM
"imagine a scenario where Bergman approaches Swedish fatalism using Gary Larson's Far Side humor"
-- John A. Nesbit, CULTUREDOSE.NET
"There's really only one good idea in this movie, but the director runs with it and presents it with an unforgettable visual panache."
-- Jeremy Heilman, MOVIEMARTYR.COM
"Andersson creates a world that's at once surreal and disturbingly familiar; absurd, yet tremendously sad."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"An absurdist spider web."
-- Duane Dudek, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"It's almost as if it's an elaborate dare more than a full-blooded film."
-- Jason Clark, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"A valuable and rare movie experience."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
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-- REEL.COM
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"This is wild surreal stuff, but brilliant and the camera just kind of sits there and lets you look at this and its like you're going from one room to the next and none of them have any relation to the other."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"A devastating indictment of unbridled greed and materalism."
-- V.A. Musetto, NEW YORK POST
"A heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic, the work of a genuine and singular artist."
-- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES
"Strange, funny, twisted, brilliant and macabre."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
"A deliciously nonsensical comedy about a city coming apart at its seams."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Easier to respect than enthuse over, Andersson's rigorous personal vision is not only distanced but distancing."
-- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
"You may not enjoy it but you will not forget it."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"A brilliant, absurd collection of vignettes that, in their own idiosyncratic way, sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium."
-- Mark Caro, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Depressive, slow, darkly funny, unyielding in its formal rigor, and unsettlingly beautiful."
-- Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
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-- GLOBE AND MAIL
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