Songs from the Second Floor (2000) on Netflix
An unending traffic jam paralyzes a city with no clear cause. Kalle, a furniture salesman, has burned down his own store to collect the insurance money.
- Netflix4.1/5
- IMDb7.5/1021,734 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes89%
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Plot summary
A series of loosely connected scenes shows life in a city paralyzed by an unending traffic jam. Passersby beat a man in the street as he searches for an office. Stock brokers fill the roads and whip one another. A businessman who has just been fired pleads for his job. A magician's trick with a saw injures a volunteer. An economist finds that work can no longer be afforded. Kalle sells furniture and has set his own store alight for the insurance money; one of his sons, a poet, is in an institution. A retired general receives guests on his hundredth birthday. Quotations from the Peruvian poet César Vallejo run through the film.
Cast
- Lars Nordhas Kalle
- Torbjörn Fahlströmas Pelle Wigert
- Sten Anderssonas Lasse
- Rolando Núñezas Immigrant
- Lucio Vucinaas The magician
- Per Jörneliusas The sawed man
- Peter Rothas Tomas
- Klas-Gösta Olssonas The speechwriter
- Nils-Åke Erikssonas Patient
- Hanna Erikssonas Mia
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
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- Ari Aster, director of Midsommar, handpicked Songs from the Second Floor for his Criterion Channel collection. Aster saw the film in a theater with his mother when he was 14 and called its impact on him "seismic", citing it as a major influence.
