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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

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Comedy drama starring Holger Andersson and Nisse Vestblom. Two travelling salesmen travel around Gothenburg trying to find customers for their joke novelty items. They encounter an odd assortment of people and get into strange adventures along the way.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Leslie Felperin

This long-windedly titled film is the last component, after Songs from the Second Floor and You, the Living, in Swedish director Roy Andersson's trilogy, but don't worry if you haven't seen the first two. There's no ongoing story that links them together - indeed, the films themselves hardly have any story to speak of at all. Instead, Andersson presents a series (37, to be exact) of highly stylised and carefully composed tableaus (the camera never moves) in which everything is in focus like a hyper-realist painting. Sometimes funny things happen and sometimes creepy things happen, and there are a few recurring characters such as a pair of salesmen hawking novelty items. However, the best way to enjoy this is not to search for coherence or unity but to just let it wash over you and embrace the weirdness, aptly described by one writer as a cross between Monty Python and Samuel Beckett.

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6.9/10

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Cast

rolenameSamNils WestblomJonathanHolger AnderssonwaitressCharlotta LarssonCharles XIIViktor Gyllenberg

Crew

rolenameDirectorRoy Andersson

Details

Theatrical distributor

Curzon Film World

Released on

2015-04-24

Languages

English | Swedish

Guidance

Violence.

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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