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Songs from the Second Floor
Why this pick
The closest match: precisely composed, deadpan tableaux turn everyday defeat and institutional absurdity into mordant, quietly haunting comedy.
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MOVIE2014 1h 40m SWE
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The movie consists of a series of mostly self-contained tableaux, sometimes connected by recurring themes or characters. The story loosely follows two traveling novelty salesmen, Jonathan and Sam, who live in a desolate flophouse, and their unsuccessful attempts to win customers for their joke articles (vampire teeth, laughing bags and a monster mask). Although there is no main storyline in the traditional sense, all scenes are connected.
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