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Named one of the top ten shorts of all time by France's prestigious Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Andersson's haunting and hilarious short, an absurdist tale of average, everyday life turning horrific (and apocalyptic), is a mini Songs from the Second Floor. Its opening scene, evoking holocausts past and future, "is one of the most chilling three-minute shots in the history of movies" (Michael Atkinson, Village Voice). "Often very funny... a compassionate yet savage indictment of human cruelty, complacency, conformism and alienation" (Geoff Andrew, Time Out). - www.cinematheque.bc.ca