23rd! today marks one month in lund. so fast. time to pay bills too. we've joined kristianstad nation. and we're going for the novischpub later this evening.
we watched a film at the friary last night. now im thinking if the word 'priory' in dominican priory is related to the word friary. hmm. so we had chips and cookies (yay!) and a film discussion after the show. its my second swedish film! so much more intellectual than the first one of vampires. here's a brief from wiki..
You, the Living (Swedish: Du levande) is a 2007 Swedish black comedy film written and directed by Roy Andersson. The film is an exploration on the "grandeur of existence,"[1] centered around the lives of an overweight woman, a disgruntled psychiatrist, a heart broken groupie, a carpenter, a business consultant, an elementary school teacher with emotional issues and her rug selling husband, among others. The basis for the film is an old Norse proverb, "Man is man's delight," taken from Hávamál in the Poetic Edda.[2] The title comes from a quote in Roman Elegies by Goethe, which is also shown as a title card right in the beginning of the film: "Be pleased then, you the living, in your delightfully warmed bed, before Lethe's ice-cold wave will lick your escaping foot."
Shot in an unconventional manner, it consists of a fluent succession of exactly 50 short sketches, most of them with a tragicomic undertone, and all except one filmed in one take. The cast is non-professional and alienating techniques such as presenting the characters in grim make-up and having them talk directly to the camera are extensively used. The financing was troublesome and the shooting took three years to finish. The film won the Silver Hugo for Best Direction at the 2007 Chicago International Film Festival and has received positive reviews.
