Laughters at the press screening and a standing ovation in the Salle Debussy welcomed the screening of Roy Andersson's You, the Living on Thursday May, 24 in Cannes.
The Un certain Regard entry supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond was described by French newspaper Libération as "a kind of Monty Python reframed by Dreyer...A series of sketches in which living feels good".
UK critic Geoff Andrew wrote in London's Time Out Magazine: "Andersson is a genuine one-off, and to be treasured, not least for the precision of his pacing and his studio-shot compositions, which together contrive to make the very bleakest of scenarios at once affecting and hilarious".
General audiences in several territories will be able to judge the film by themselves as Philippe Bober's Coproduction Office signed off deals with France (Les Films du Losange), Germany (Neue Visionen), Finland (Cinema Mondo), Greece (Ama), Korea (Sponge) and Japan (Style Jam). Andersson's Studio 24 will release it nationwide in Sweden next September.