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20. Lykke Li - Sadness is a Blessing (Director Tarik Saleh)
9 months ago
Directed by: Tarik Saleh
Starring Lykke Li, Stellan Skarsgård.
D.O.P: Carl Nilsson

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  • Hauke Sandhaus 9 months ago
    Thanks for the Vimeo link! We all hate the Gema!
  • cris wiegandt 9 months ago
    Yes!!!
  • HrKnopf 4 months ago
    yep yep
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  • Kmicu 9 months ago
    Now you're the brightest star in my music sky.
    PS Thanks for vimeo link.
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  • pascal germroth 9 months ago
    congratulations on the 1.2GBytes original file size :D
  • Isolder 9 months ago
    Wish the original file was available eh.
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  • Kamran Khan plus 9 months ago
    wow love the video, song, music, voice, direction everything is amazing where i can download the song of Miss Lykki Li thanks for sharing
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  • Alen S 9 months ago
    love everything, even kanon vodka
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  • lucia bonde 9 months ago
    uh... Im crying
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  • itstherealone 9 months ago
    <3
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  • joao saude 9 months ago
    i'm in love
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  • Kidnapping 9 months ago
    Great, great great, bravo !
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  • Kidnapping 9 months ago
    Congrat to Tarik Saleh
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  • simdude2u 9 months ago
    .
  • Brandonn Zamudio 9 months ago
    i agree
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  • Andrew Grey 9 months ago
    This is amazing!!!! I love it... what's the color grading process? how did you get the overall 'brown tones'?
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  • Mi Nguyen 9 months ago
    She's such a great artist
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  • Charaktart 9 months ago
    nice oneshot
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  • Andrea Allen staff 9 months ago
    Great work! I've been watching it over and over.
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  • Cody Min 9 months ago
    i was completely enraptured by the film. i usually sit back from the computer, when i watch short films, but i couldn't help leaning forward and feeling like a part of the whole scene.

    i think this is one of my favorite vimeo music videos.

    absolutely fantastic. what camera were you shooting on, and what did you use for post?
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  • Arnaud Nilwik 9 months ago
    In the first place thank you for sharing. This is really a great piece of art. A lot of tension and misunderstanding in a short movie. Great camerawork also. You know what is happening, but it stay's a big question. One of my favorits too.
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  • Travis Guerra plus 9 months ago
    Brilliant! You got a big name actor to. Was this shot on the Red?
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  • Arnaud Nilwik 9 months ago
    Oh and I forgot.... great acting too.
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  • Auke-Jan Weening 9 months ago
    This is so intriguing!
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  • Valentina Morianz 9 months ago
    wow... what a beautiful woman...
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  • Oliver Stahl 9 months ago
    I lykke it.
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  • Paula Carvalho 9 months ago
    amazing <3
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  • Stephen Niebauer staff 9 months ago
    yeah, this is really great
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  • Dillon Morris plus 9 months ago
    amazing video.
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  • Angeline Gragasin plus 9 months ago
    Gorgeous cinematography and captivating but subtle acting. Well done.
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  • Bob Gundu plus 9 months ago
    Bravo!
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  • kasey lum plus 9 months ago
    I love lykke li.. oh my.
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  • Debb Leo 9 months ago
    ;) nice....
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  • FuturePrimitive Soap 9 months ago
    i enjoyed that muchly.
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  • David O'Connor 9 months ago
    Great track, with a beautiful promo.
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  • Karim Huu Do plus 9 months ago
    Great idea, great acting, great directing and Stellan Skarsgård! A perfect match!
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  • Libertad Magallan 9 months ago
    I love your music!
    good job!!!
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  • Nimpsy | Jamal Qutub 9 months ago
    I love.
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  • luisaltamirano 9 months ago
    Gusta!
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  • This is an impressive video with its all prespectives... The acting is mesmerizing and I am already fan of Mr. Stellan Skarsgård. You look gorgeous and elegant in this daring dress by the way. Congrats Mr. Tarik Saleh!
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  • Pluriversum 9 months ago
    what a great idea and performance! nice to see a music video with a concept once in a while
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  • EGOSOUL 9 months ago
    i hate the gema - too :)
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  • Schmüdde plus 9 months ago
    Lykke Li's videos for this album are bravely cinematic. I love it.

    Schmüdde
    schmudde.net
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  • Cam Gould 9 months ago
    Lykke Li is... and is surrounded by ...almost unbearably lovely sights, sounds and ideas.
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  • le brownie 9 months ago
    Oh noes, life is so tough for rich white women.

    tear
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  • waiting.leno 9 months ago
    哇~太棒了!!!
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  • It's great. I'm not taking anything away from it. Undeniably great. But...imagine how cool it would have been if it weren't a music video. I was watching that first minute or so thinking "Wow. This is really amazing. This is incredibly original." Then the music started and it's like...oh...it's another trippy out of the box music video. I'm not hating on music videos, but when I realized it was a video, I was upset, because the plot was clearly going in a direction during that first minute, and I wanted to see where it was leading. However, once the music starts, we know that its about the music, the rest of the video will be more about singing and dancing, and the plot isn't really going to progress so much anymore (a little, not much. Again, mostly about the music). I really, really wanted to see what would have happened in the next three minutes if this were just a short film. That would have been amazing. Another side, I suppose it would have been hard to fund this were it not directly supporting some form of commercialism, but it would have been so, so much more different and entertaining. I mean, how many out of the box music videos do you see on vimeo? Tons. How many shorts do you see that are this well shot, innovative, and well concieved? Very few. Would have been a lot better. Disagree? C'mon someone. Debate me!
  • Bruno Fujii 9 months ago
    It is just a music video.
  • I was looking for a lively discussion but I don't even know if I should even address that one seriously. Oh well...

    Taking your comment at face value, you're absolutely right. It is "just a music video", and that is precisely what upsets me.

    Let me backtrack.

    By defending the piece on the grounds that it's "just a music video", you're implicitly advocating the notion that one should only aim to satisfy the standard that's been established for a particular form of media (i.e. a commercial should only seek to be a good commercial, a webisode should only seek to be seen as "good" when compared to other webisodes, etc.) However, the author of this piece has clearly rejected that notion, as this work quite apparently strives to be more than "just a music video". This is plainly evidenced by the first minute or so, the section before the track comes in.

    Unfortunately, it ultimately does become "just a music video", for the reasons I outlined above (the story ceases to evolve after the music begins). As a viewer I'm intrigued, as the video opens with something very unique and cerebral, and then disappointed, when it devolves into just another music video (though an exceptionally good one by music video standards). Could have been so much better. Anyone else have a dissenting opinion? Gotta be someone. Someone jump in!
  • Brandonn Zamudio 6 months ago
    No wonder why no one jumps in

    You are basically arguing that this “music video” would have been more entertaining if it was a short film. How can you support that?

    It depends on whether the audience will find a short more enjoyable than a compound like this one. It is not solely a music video, nor a short itself, it is both, and you are not supposed to dissect it nor adapt it to your standard of entertainment. It is totally unnecessary. It’s like saying “I would like that car to have two wheels, and be a motorcycle”...

    You are trying to revolutionize against a composite that was not targeted towards your interests.
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  • Jyri 9 months ago
    Simply wonderful!
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  • Bruno Fujii 9 months ago
    She's georgeous.
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  • Marcelo Graciano plus 9 months ago
    Bravo!!! She's georgeous. (2) members
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  • Bobby Digital 9 months ago
    Great video! What did they shoo this with?
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  • Javi S. Pheng 9 months ago
    My god, this piece of work is an absolute masterpiece.
    It's the very first time I'm so amazed by a vimeo video.
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  • Adel 9 months ago
    غربي
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  • Huey Le 9 months ago
    great cinematography. She is beautiful
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  • Christian Rockström plus 9 months ago
    Jättefint!
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  • le brownie 9 months ago
    I don't understand what's supposed to be so incredible about this video. Someone care to explain?
    TIA
  • Lorenzo Sportiello 9 months ago
    It is a sensibility matter... How to explain it?
    Go to watch fast and furious.
  • Lorenzo Sportiello 9 months ago
    I'm sorry mate,
    wasn't my intent to offend you in any ways.
    You are more sensitive than I thought! ;)

    bye...
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  • Monet Stargazer 9 months ago
    She's such a great actor as she is an awesome singer/songwriter.
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  • Rhodi Iliadou 9 months ago
    Love everything about this video!! and amazing song!!
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  • Spardha Malik 9 months ago
    THIS IS AWESOME!!! i love this video. I reallllly love that dress... who's the designer??>>>.>>>>

    itsuberchic.blogspot.com
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  • Annah R. S. 9 months ago
    OUH !!! so great .. amazing bravo , brava !
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  • S-Video 9 months ago
    Спасибо за Ваше творчество! Ещё одним поклонником стало больше:)

    Thanks for your creativity! One more admirer became more:)
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  • RED LEMONADE 9 months ago
    i love it!!!
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  • Ben Prendergast 9 months ago
    Great video! Go Stellan Skarsgard!
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  • Andrei Potorac 9 months ago
    So this was recorded on a Canon 7D? Otherwise, why is Vimeo adding stuff related to it on the sidebar?
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  • into bikes 9 months ago
    Not sure what I saw. Suffering ,aloneness, pain, sorrow. At first I thought it was going to be a drinking and driving death video. The results of drinking too much. Perhaps it was.
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  • originalorol 9 months ago
    Lykke Li - Woman with a sad soul..Bless you:)
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  • Daniel Grasskamp 9 months ago
    Beautiful! Thanks for the link
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  • Daria Pitak 9 months ago
    It took my breathe away for a while at the end.
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  • Ria Krause 9 months ago
    Beautiful...
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  • Radoslav Sharapanov 9 months ago
    great, echoes the party in Antonioni's "Identification of a Woman"
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  • Anastasia Marchal 9 months ago
    Love when she's dancing !
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  • alexandre milani 9 months ago
    uow!!! make me fell...
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  • Nirmala 9 months ago
    Never expected the ending. Stung my eyes!
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  • Hilde 9 months ago
    I saw Ångrarna just a short while ago, and enjoyed spotting Orlando Fagin in this beautiful music video as well. Any other hidden gems among the crew (besides the obvious Stellan)?
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  • Marcyniu Lotyniu 9 months ago
    emotional as always
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  • erica ojeda 8 months ago
    i don't understand it but it's beautiful.
  • vince verbatim 7 months ago
    'She tries to be happy at the beginning, she laught, dares sadness and dances trying to avoid it, but at the end she gives up in the arms of sadness.'
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  • kirkdify 8 months ago
    omg
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  • Vee Bdosa 8 months ago
    Poetry in motion, every single element is essiantial to the whole of this masterpiece. Being a poet myself, I marvel in the sound the dance, the character movement, the wonderful wonderful lyric that I searched out on the Internet and read so that I did not miss one single element of this story that takes one through the very basics and essentials of poetry. Who wrote the lyric,? the director, thank you thank you for your magic touch to this production. I have not enough praise for this magic.
    Ronnie Wilson aka Vee Bdosa the Doylestown Poet
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  • LARD FUQ 7 months ago
    shawty go hard!
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  • alfredo Lugano 7 months ago
    breath taking! bravo! masterpiece!
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  • ernesto lo 7 months ago
    Who made her dress!?!
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  • Alejandra Sanchez 6 months ago
    AMAZING! and OMG that dress!!
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  • David J. Buchanan 5 months ago
    That guy looks like William Hurt.
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  • Dilay Switch 5 months ago
    nothing but love
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  • Alexandra Myressioti 4 months ago
    What a beautiful song, and a great work in the video!!!!
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  • Ava Ash 4 months ago
    love it ♥
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  • Ilídio Ribeiro 2 months ago
    wow
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  • Urban Peace Division plus 2 months ago
    love love love this video
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  • The 405 plus 2 months ago
    The video made it on the 405's 'Videos of the Year' list!

    thefourohfive.com/tv/the-405-top-25-videos-of-the-
    year-2011
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  • Rob Munday 1 month ago
    Brilliant video with some outstanding performances.

    Added to our channel - vimeo.com/channels/wearedn
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