The film was well received by Swedish critics , with an aggregate rating of 4.1 out of 5 based on 22 reviews at Kritiker.se , which made it by far the highest rated Swedish film of 2007 . Carl-Johan Malmberg at '' Svenska Dagbladet '' called Andersson " the black diamond of comedy in Swedish film life . " Further , he compared the casting to Vittorio De Sica 's 1948 film '' Bicycle Thieves '' , and the usage of the cast to " a fastidious Samuel Beckett . " The international response was also positive . The film currently holds a 97 % approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes , based on 38 reviews , with an average rating of 7.7 / 10 . The site 's critical consensus reads : " Composed of humorous sketches of human behavior , Roy Andersson 's '' You , the Living '' is an eccentric but highly entertaining and unforgettable work . " The film holds a score of 81 out of 100 , based on 14 reviews , indicating " universal acclaim . " Peter Bradshaw at '' The Guardian '' gave it 4 out of 5 and called it " the work of a real original – I might almost say a genius . He is radically different from anyone else , with a technical , compositional rigour that puts other movie-makers and visual artists to shame . And he really is funny . " US critic Justin Chang was mainly positive in an early Cannes review for '' Variety '' , although he still found that " a certain repetitiveness does eventually seep into the structure , and one could complain that the individual scenes do n't ultimately build to anything ( or that the arrangement of scenes is fairly arbitrary ) . " In addition to the awards and nominations , '' You , the Living '' was also Sweden 's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 80th Academy Awards , but it was not selected as a nominee
80th Academy Awards
80th Academy Awards
You, the Living