You, The Living (opens in new tab)

‘Be pleased then, you, the living, in your delightfully warmed bed, before Lethe’s ice-cold wave licks your escaping foot.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Roman Elegies, 1790 From Goethe’s cautionary prelude unspools Roy Andersson’s Du levande (You, The Living, 2007), an atomised dollhouse of brief, grim sketches on urban malaise. The poem’s tidal threat begs […]