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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

Original title: En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron
  • 20142014
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 41m
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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
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Sam and Jonathan, a pair of hapless novelty salesmen, embark on a tour of the human condition in reality and fantasy that unfold in a series of absurdist episodes.Sam and Jonathan, a pair of hapless novelty salesmen, embark on a tour of the human condition in reality and fantasy that unfold in a series of absurdist episodes.Sam and Jonathan, a pair of hapless novelty salesmen, embark on a tour of the human condition in reality and fantasy that unfold in a series of absurdist episodes.
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    • Director
      • Roy Andersson
    • Writer
      • Roy Andersson
    • Stars
      • Holger Andersson
      • Nils Westblom
      • Viktor Gyllenberg
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    • Director
      • Roy Andersson
    • Writer
      • Roy Andersson
    • Stars
      • Holger Andersson
      • Nils Westblom
      • Viktor Gyllenberg
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    • 65User reviews
    • 201Critic reviews
    • 81Metascore
    • Awards
      • 5 wins & 28 nominations

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    Holger Andersson
    • Jonathan
    Nils Westblom
    Nils Westblom
    • Sam
    Viktor Gyllenberg
    Viktor Gyllenberg
    • King Karl XII
    Lotti Törnros
    • Flamenco Teacher
    Per Bergqvist
    Charlotta Larsson
    • Limping Lotta
    Solveig Andersson
    Solveig Andersson
    Sture Olsson
    Jonas Gerholm
    • Lonesome Lieutnant
    Ingvar Olsson
    Ola Stensson
    • Captain…
    Oscar Salomonsson
    • Dancer
    Roger Olsen Likvern
    • Caretaker
    Linda Birgersson
    Arne Hellqvist
    Gunnar Bergström
    Maia-Lii Kaar
    Anette Eklund
    • Director
      • Roy Andersson
    • Writer
      • Roy Andersson
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    • Trivia
      The title was inspired by the painting The Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
    • Connections
      Follows Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
    • Soundtracks
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    8/10
    vegetarians of love
    Please, listen: if you are looking for a "classic" story you should choose something else. A story is here, indeed, but it's buried under a series of episodes and different POVs – it feels like we are having the chance to observe the behavior of the inhabitants of a parallel dimension from the fixed cameras of an internal surveillance video system (a very special one, equally able to look in the present, in the past and in the dreams of the strange characters displayed).

    What we get, in the movie, it's a composite drawing of the social, private, and inner lives of those characters. And it's strange, of course: sometimes you can hardly tell the difference between the dream and the reality and the reverie – as those surveillance cameras never flinch and inch, even in front of the most strange happenings. But, even if the cameras never moves, the images we are shown constantly jump the tone of the story from drama, to comedy, to horror, to nonsense, with a quickness that is uncommon for the genre-related, petrified narrative codes we are used to.

    The main thing I could understand, in the end, is that the problem of the people living in this world is their inability to care about each other's feelings. Some of them eventually even understand this, and with regret, because they realize that if you are not able to love your close ones then you will hardly be able to love yourself. Still, all of them look completely unable to go over this self-imposed limit: so it happens that the stuffed pigeon at the begin of the movie seems by far to be the most alive of the characters featured – not to mention the happiest one.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 24, 2014 (Norway)
    • Countries of origin
      • Sweden
      • Germany
      • Norway
      • France
      • Denmark
    • Official site
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Languages
      • Swedish
      • English
    • Also known as
      • İnsanları Seyreden Güvercin
    • Filming locations
      • Östermalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
    • Production companies
      • Roy Andersson Filmproduktion AB
      • 4 1/2 Film
      • Arte France Cinéma
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $222,989
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $25,313
      • Jun 7, 2015
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,472,431
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 41 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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