Songs from the Second Floor(Sånger från andra våningen)

The New York Times by Elvis Mitchell

A heartbreakingly thoughtful minor classic, the work of a genuine and singular artist.

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

Despite some deadpan, Jacques Tati-like orchestration and occasional sight gags, there's no real pleasure in the game -- Songs From the Second Floor is more absurd than funny.

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

"Songs" is a delight. It's a visual feast and often hilarious.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Andersson creates a world that's at once surreal and disturbingly familiar; absurd, yet tremendously sad. The haunting score is by ABBA's Benny Andersson.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Liam Lacey

The film is like an Ingmar Bergman movie as realized by Monty Python: It's seriously gloomy about the loss of spirituality in the world, but at the same time rudely, sometimes hilariously, absurd.

Chicago Tribune by Mark Caro

A brilliant, absurd collection of vignettes that, in their own idiosyncratic way, sum up the strange horror of life in the new millennium.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

A collision at the intersection of farce and tragedy--the apocalypse as a joke on us.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

Though the laughs in Songs From The Second Floor tend to stick in the throat, they're also cathartic and oddly comforting, because the world outside the movie theater is bound to look cheerier than the one on the screen.

Boston Globe by Ty Burr

The film is depressive, slow, darkly funny, unyielding in its formal rigor, and unsettlingly beautiful. It's obviously not for everyone, but only because not everyone can meet its stare.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

A devastating indictment of unbridled greed and materalism, made all the more relevant by the Enron and WorldCom scandals.