Weekend Movie Forecast: The Cove or Funny People

Film Forum is screening the U.S. premiere of You the Living, Swedish director Roy Andersson’s dreamlike series of vignettes about appalling urban life in dank Northern Europe. The Post's V.A. Musetto calls it "the funniest movie of 2009 (so far)... The most outlandish episode involves a man in overalls who is sentenced to the electric chair for failing miserably at the old tablecloth trick. As a result, a 200-year-old set of china was destroyed—and no punishment less than execution is to be tolerated... Andersson has a one-of-a-kind style that not all viewers will appreciate. His humor is not at all like Hollywood's. His is leisurely and cerebral—two words never heard in La La Land."