#a pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence

[artfilmfan]

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson, 2014)

#a pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence #roy andersson #swedish cinema

[cemyafilmarsiv]

Trilogy

Songs from the Second Floor

Not Rated

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

.... directed by Roy Anderson

#Roy Anderson #Trilogy #Songs from the second floor #Not Rated #A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

[nedison]

Sist vi följas åt till himmelen

Hvor vi treffer far och mor igjen

Bliva åter unga börja åter sjunga

Kärleken är livets bästa vän

#roy andersson #a pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence

[askmovieslate]

Have you ever been turned off by a movie just by the title alone? Yeah, that's unfortunate, missing out on a good movie because the title is really bad.

Other obscure movies I'd like to bring attention to:

The Last Duel.

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence.

The Big Martian.

Supermensch.

It's weird to recommend any of these, because you want to look for them, but they're either going to have no DVD/Blu-Ray release, or not be on streaming.

It's such a gamble!

#ask movie slate #unicorn #movie slate #web comic #movie review #ask blog #ask pony blog #pony #mlp oc #oc

[inthefallofasparrow]

If you have seen more than one of these films, choose the one you think is most uncommon.

#poll #film

[thenineofus]

I think it's hilarious that tumblr made up a movie that doesn't exist based on the dumb "when you tell a film bro" tiktok instead of actually just watching A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) or The Painted Bird (2019)

#mališa

[eatsyourainbow]

FILMS LIST

Series 13 Reasons Why American Horror Story Breaking Bad Mr. Robot Pride and Prejudice Spotless

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# (500) Days of Summer (2009) 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) 1001 Grams (2014) 13 Going on 30 (2004) 17 Again (2009) 17 filles (2011) 3 Hearts (2014) 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) 45 Years (2015) 5 Centimeters Per Second (2007) 50/50 (2011) 6 Years (2015)

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A A Brief History of Time (1991) A Brilliant Young Mind (2014) A Cinderella Story (2004) A Lot Like Love (2005) A Man Called Ove (2015) A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) A Single Man (2009) A Summer Violence (2014) A Walk to Remember (2002) About a Boy (2002) About Time (2013) Across the Universe (2007) Addams Family Values (1993) Adult World (2013) All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001) Almost Famous (2000) Almost Friends (2016) Amélie (2001) American History X (1998) American Psycho (2000) And They Lived Happily Ever After (2004) Anna Karenina (2012) Annie Hall (1977) Anomalisa (2015) Another Earth (2011) Armageddon (1998) Atonement (2007) Away from Her (2006) Away We Go (2009)

B Bachelorette (2012) Bad Teacher (2011) Barney’s Version (2010) Beastly (2011) Becoming Jane (2007) Before Midnight (2013) Before Sunrise (1995) Before Sunset (2004) Before We Go (2014) Begin Again (2013) Beginners (2010) Being Flynn (2012) Ben X (2007) Big Fish (2003) Blue Valentine (2010) Boyhood (2014) Breathe In (2013) Breathless (1960) Brick (2005) Bright Star (2009) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Bruce Almighty (2003)

C Calvary (2014) Candy (2006) Can’t Hardly Wait (1998) Carrie Pilby (2016) Cashback (2006) Catch Me If You Can (2002) Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012) Cemetery Junction (2010) Chungking Express (1994) Citizenfour (2014) City of Angels (1998) Closer (2004) Cloud Atlas (2012) Clueless (1995) Columbus (2017) Comet (2014) Confessions (2010) Cries & Whispers (1972) Cruel Intentions (1999) Crush (2013)

D Damsels in Distress (2011) Daydream Nation (2010) Death at a Funeral (2007) Dead Poets Society (1989) Dear John (2010) Dedication (2007) Definitely, Maybe (2008) Despicable Me (2010) Detachment (2011) Disconnect (2012) Don’t Laugh at My Romance (2007) Donnie Darko (2001) Dope (2015)

E Easy A (2010) Edward Scissorhands (1990) Elizabethtown (2005) Empire Records (1995) Enchanted (2007) Enough Said (2013) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998) Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

F Failure to Launch (2006) Fallen Angels (1995) Fanny and Alexander (1982) Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) Fight Club (1999) Fish Tank (2009) Flipped (2010) Forrest Gump (1994) Frances Ha (2012) Frank (2014)

G Garden State (2004) Gemma Bovery (2014) Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) Ghost World (2001) Gifted (2017) Girl, Interrupted (1999) Good Bye Lenin! (2003) Good Will Hunting (1997) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) Great Expectations (2011)

H Happythankyoumoreplease (2010) Harry Potter (2001-2011) He’s Just Not That Into You (2009) Heavenly Creatures (1994) Her (2013) Hick (2011) Home Alone (1990) How Do You Know (2010) How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

I I’m Not There. (2007) I Am Sam (2001) Ida (2013) I Killed My Mother (2009) I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) I Origins (2014) If I Stay (2014) If Only (2004) In Your Eyes (2014) Into the Wild (2007) I Smile Back (2015) It’s Kind of a Funny Story (2010)

J Jane Eyre (1996) Jane Eyre (2011) Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011) Jerry Maguire (1996) Juno (2007) Jurassic Park (1993) Just Like Heaven (2005)

K Keeping the Faith (2000) Keith (2008) Kill Your Darlings (2013)

L L’Enfer (1994) La belle personne (2008) Laggies (2014) Last Night (2010) Laurence Anyways (2012) Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) Léon: The Professional (1994) Les Misérables (1998) Less Than Zero (1987) Letters to Juliet (2010) Liberal Arts (2012) Life Happens (2011) Like Crazy (2011) Lincoln (2012) Little Birds (2011) Little Forest: Summer/Autumn (2014) Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Liv & Ingmar (2012) LOL (2012) Lola Versus (2012) Lost in Translation (2003) Louder Than Bombs (2015) Love & Other Drugs (2010) Love Actually (2003) Love and Death (1975) Love and Other Disasters (2006) Love Me If You Dare (2003) Love Story (1970) Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998) Lucy (2014) Lymelife (2008)

M Maggie’s Plan (2015) Manchester by the Sea (2016) Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (2009) Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy (2013) Matilda (1996) Mauvais sang (1986) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) Mean Girls (2004) Medianeras (2011) Memento (2000) Monsieur Lazhar (2011) Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Mozart and the Whale (2005) Mr. Nobody (2009) My Blueberry Nights (2007) My Girl (1991) My Life Without Me (2003) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) My Own Private Idaho (1991) My Rainy Days (2009) My So Has Got Depression (2011)

N Napoleon Dynamite (2004) Never Been Kissed (1999) Never Let Me Go (2010) Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008) Night on Earth (1991) No Strings Attached (2011) Nobody Walks (2012) Northanger Abbey (2007) Norwegian Wood (2010) Now Is Good (2012)

O On the Beach at Night Alone (2017) Once (2006) Only Yesterday (1991) Orlando (1992) Oslo, 31. august (2011) Our Little Sister (2015)

P Palo Alto (2013) Parasyte: Part 1 (2014) Parasyte: Part 2 (2015) Paris, je t’aime (2006) Paris, Texas (1984) Pay It Forward (2000) Penelope (2006) People Like Us (2012) Persona (1966) Petal Dance (2013) Philomena (2013) Prayers for Bobby (2009) Pretty in Pink (1986) Pride & Prejudice (2005) Pulp Fiction (1994)

R Raise Your Voice (2004) Rashomon (1950) Reality Bites (1994) Requiem for a Dream (2000) Respire (2014) Revolutionary Road (2008) Rocket Science (2007) Ruby Sparks (2012) Running with Scissors (2006) Rushmore (1998)

S Safe Haven (2013) Say Anything… (1989) Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) Sexual Chronicles of a French Family (2012) Side Effects (2013) Silver Linings Playbook (2012) Simple Simon (2010) Sixteen Candles (1984) Shakespeare in Love (1998) She’s the Man (2006) Short Term 12 (2013) Sleepwalk with Me (2012) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Sound of My Voice (2011) Speak (2004) Spirited Away (2001) Spotlight (2015) St. Elmo’s Fire (1985) Still Walking (2008) Stranger Than Fiction (2006) Struck by Lightning (2012) Stuck in Love (2012) Submarine (2010) Sunshine Cleaning (2008) Sweeney Todd (2007) Sweet Little Lies (2010)

T Tag (2015) Take This Waltz (2011) Taxi Driver (1976) Terms of Endearment (1983) That Thing You Do! (1996) The Art of Getting By (2011) The Black Balloon (2008) The Bling Ring (2013) The Blue Room (2014) The Book Thief (2013) The Breakfast Club (1985) The Choice (2016) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) The Double (2013) The Double Life of Veronique (1991) The Dreamers (2003) The Edukators (2004) The End of the Tour (2015) The Face of Another (1966) The Falling (2014) The Fault in Our Stars (2014) The Garden of Words (2013) The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) The Great Gatsby (1974) The High Cost of Living (2010) The Host (2013) The Intervention (2016) The Jacket (2005) The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) The Kid with a Bike (2011) The Kids Are All Right (2010) The Kings of Summer (2013) The Last Kiss (2006) The Last Song (2010) The Little Mermaid (1989) The Little Prince (2015) The Lobster (2015) The Long Excuse (2016) The Lorax (2012) The Lovely Bones (2009) The Lucky One (2012) The Notebook (2004) The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) The One I Love (2014) The Other Woman (2009) The Painted Veil (2006) The Parent Trap (1998) The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) The Piano Teacher (2001) The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004) The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) The Ramen Girl (2008) The Reader (2008) The Remains of the Day (1993) The Road Within (2014) The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) The Science of Sleep (2006) The Secret Life of Words (2005) The Seventh Seal (1957) The Simpsons Movie (2007) The Sixth Sense (1999) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) The Solitude of Prime Numbers (2010) The Spectacular Now (2013) The Squid and the Whale (2005) The Theory of Everything (2014) The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009) The Tracey Fragments (2007) The Tree of Life (2011) The Truth About Emanuel (2013) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) The Virgin Suicides (1999) The Visitor (2007) The Vow (2012) The Way He Looks (2014) The White Ribbon (2009) The Wizard of Oz (1939) The Young Victoria (2009) This Is 40 (2012) This Is England (2006) Three Colors: White (1994) Through a Glass Darkly (1961) Thumbsucker (2005) Tideland (2005) Tiny Furniture (2010) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) To the Wonder (2012) To Write Love on Her Arms (2012) Toni Erdmann (2016) Trainspotting (1996) Tuck Everlasting (2002) Two Days, One Night (2014) Two Night Stand (2014)

U Unexpected (2015) Uptown Girls (2003)

V Very Good Girls (2013)

W Waiting for Forever (2010) Weekend (2011) Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) Welcome to the Rileys (2010) What If (2013) What to Expect When You’re Expecting (2012) White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) White Oleander (2002) Why Stop Now? (2012) Wild (2014) Wild Child (2008) Wings of Desire (1987) Wish I Was Here (2014) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)

Y You’ve Got Mail (1998) Young Adult (2011) Yourself and Yours (2016) Youth in Revolt (2009)

[janiedean]

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence doesn't actually feature any pigeons (... that I can remember. it's been a while) but a) it's a really good movie and b) I always figured you'd love the title. (Though honestly I think it sounds better in Italian: Un piccione seduto su un ramo riflette sull'esistenza. Idek, to me it just feels smoother and more pleasant to say out loud. No opinion on the original Swedish, lol.)

dlgdòlsk it's absolutely BAD that it doesn't feature any pigeons but yes the title is amazing and I'm absolutely gonna look it up kjgldlksklgj

#haljathefangirlcat #ask post #si suona meglio in italiano comunque kljgd

[maxbrodbeckfilmblog]

THe Hands of Men - Meeting With Director

I had spoken to everyone involved a good deal already, which is why I wanted to work on the project in the first place. I was intrigued by how crazy and ridiculous the concept was: man has enormous hand because he cheated on his wife, and was excited to work on something so interesting.

My proper creative involvement in the film began when I met our director Paula in the Merchiston library. After discussing the script and crew, Paula gave me a series of references for the visuals and tone of the film. They are quite an unusual bunch to pair together to say the least and it took some time for me to really build a solid picture for the vision of the project.

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Anders, 2014) Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977) Marriage Story (Baumbach, 2019) Interiors (Allen, 1978)

Paula had watched Eraserhead the night before and was inspired to pursue this as the core visual reference for our film.

In this meeting we decided on several things…

The Hands of Men will be shot in colour.

We will use stage-like, over theatrical lighting.

We are going to attempt a dolly zoom during the reveal scene.

We want the framing to be quite close, and frame Richard in high angles, and Violet in low angles.

[a-life-in-frames]

En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron (A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence) (2014) by Roy Andersson

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Watching

A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE [En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron]

Roy Anderson Sweden, 2014

#Roy Andersson #Swedish films #watching #2014

[karlrummel]

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Roy Andersson

[lowysefi]

A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence (2014)

Director: Roy Andersson

[tilbageidanmark]

Movies I watched this Week - #82

My first film with actor Tom Hardy - a movie about cement. Locke is a character piece that features only one person, and takes place exclusively inside a BMW driving from Birmingham to London at night. Like the Danish thriller ‘The Guilty’, its power comes from the gripping roller-coaster story that unfolds in stages. It tells of a responsible construction foreman whose life unravels as he drives to be present for the birth of a child conceived during a one-night stand. Highly recommended!

The unique film of the week!

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2 Peak Jack Nicholson Roles:

🍿 ...”I’m tired of what’s right and wrong”…

Re-watch: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981 version). Peak Jessica Lange and another depression-era Jack Nicholson drifter in a hard-core, sadomasochistic and “steamy” affair. The first hour of their sexual attraction was sensational, and their plan to kill her husband riveting. The second hour, from the moment the husband was dead, was very weak.

RIP, Bob Rafelson!

🍿 The Pledge, the third film directed by Sean Penn, and one of Nicholson’s last great roles. And what an ensemble cast: Benicio del Toro, Sam Shepard, Harry Dean Stanton, Vanessa Redgrave, Mickey Rourke, Helen Mirren,  Patricia Clarkson, Robin Wright Penn (with a chipped front tooth), Lois Smith and Aaron Eckhart. Also, a terrific Hans Zimmer score. 7/10.

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A newer Werner Herzog thriller with Michael Shannon I never heard of? With a hostage taking plot against an ecological disaster on the salt flats in Bolivia? Sign me up. However, Salt and Fire, written by Herzog in only 5 days, was BAD! Stilted dialogue, terrible acting, meaningless story. The only positive was the lovely score. 2/10.

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2 Older Korean women protecting their difficult sons/grandsons:

🍿 Poetry, my 4th lyrical masterpiece by Lee Chang-dong, (After ‘Burning’. ‘Peppermint Candy’ and ‘A girl at my door’). He is now one of my all-time favorite directors. Another 100% “Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes, and deservedly so.

A 66-year-old grandmother discovers that her growing memory loss is caused by early-onset Alzheimer, but the story is not about how her life deteriorates. Instead, it tells about her enrolling in a poetry class, and her dealing with her rebellious grandson. Wistful, poetic and moving. 10/10.

🍿I thought that the story of Bong Joon-ho’s Mother would be similar, as the write up sounded somehow similar. But it didn’t compare. Here, the mother of an intellectually-challanged boy accused of murder, becomes an investigator in order to clear his name. But there was no depth to the story, and no ‘poetry’ to the film-making. 3/10.

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In the last year I saw 5 of Roy Andersson’s 6 Feature films (I can’t find ‘Gilliap’ anywhere!), but I had to watch A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence again today. (Photo Above).

It’s so Swedish, so funny and so sad.

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My first two by Takashi Miike:

🍿 Audition - Sammy challenged me to see it, “one of the most fucked up movies that he ever saw”, and I was apprehensive for quite a while because I won’t watch horror films. But it wasn’t straight ‘torture-porn’. Before it turns into a sadistic revenge-shocker at the third act, the story of a widower producer who uses a false casting audition to find a woman to marry was nuanced and well-done. The ‘normal’ psychology of the first half, felt extra unsettling at the end. 7/10.

🍿 His completely different The Happiness of the Katakuris. A bizarre genre-bender: A surrealist and lovely comedy about a family of six (plus their dog Pochi) who buys a bed & breakfast out in the country, but nobody visits it, and the few that do, end up dying. The Macabre and insane story is broken up with stylistic anomalies: Wild Claymation and dream sequences, a karaoke-style sing-alongs, and every few minutes over-the-top song and dance numbers, like ‘The feeling of love’, and ‘That’s happiness’. Unique and delightful. 8/10.

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The milk of sorrow, my first award-winning film from Peru about violence and trauma, directed by Claudia Llosa (the daughter of Mario Vargas Llosa). Magaly Solier, who was also wonderful at ‘Lina from Lima’, stars as a impoverished woman tormented. The suffering of the local women has passed from one generation to the next in fears which paralyze their lives. Tragic magical realism, troubling and transcendental. 8/10.

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How to make a masterpiece with a near-zero budget - Where Is My Friend's House? My 4th film by Abbas Kiarostami, and again, like ‘Homework’, about ordinary first graders at a poor Iranian village. An 8-year-old boy have to return his friend's notebook that he took by mistake, or the friend will be punished. One of Kurosawa's favorite films and one of the greatest films about childhood I’ve ever seen. The final shot is heart-stopping. 10/10.

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Laugh or Die, a strange comedy from Finland, about a a group of theater actors in a prison camp, who must stage a comedy play for the camp commandant - or be executed. This is during the Finnish civil war of 1918, on which I knew very little beforehand. 🍿 

”… The horse blew first…”

Between the two verifiable masterpieces ‘The Gold Rush’ and ‘City Lights’, Chaplin directed The Circus. The sentimental, melancholy story of a selfless clown, who can only be funny unintentionally. Also, I never realized how much makeup he used for his eyes. Re-watch.

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Making It Big: The History of Gay Adult Film, a feature-length documentary (or rather a YouTube video essay, made and narrated by one guy) about the history of gay porn in America. Not XXX-explicit, but about hard-core gay porn. "I did not know that!..."

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Picnic, about a no-good vagrant who comes to a small Kansas town and messes up wherever he goes. A cheesy drama of 1955 social and sexual morals, that rings fake and cringy today. With young Kim Novak and Cliff Robertson, and starring 37-year-old William Holden, who looked 47, and was wooing in the movie Novak’s high-school little sister.

I could only finish this stagey, artificial Oh shucks Mid-America Mid-century hokum with gritted teeth and by giving myself small hits on the head.

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Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman X 2:

🍿 As much as I didn’t like the movie, Paul Newman made his Broadway theater debut in the original 1953 production of ‘Picnic'.

I learnt that in Ethan Hawke’s new 6-part series The Last Movie Stars, a double biography of the classy, handsome Hollywood couple, who were super successful actors, as well as a loving husband and wife for 50 years.

The self-indulgent framing of the project as a Covid / Zoom interviews was unnecessary, but the bulk of the documentary was fascinating and absorbing. I binged it all in one day - 8/10.

(Also, I didn’t realize that Joanne Woodward was diagnosed with Alzheimer in 2008, just as her husband died, and is still alive today at 92).

🍿 So I’m going to go through as many of their films as I can find, the 16 films they did together, as well as the many others they played separately.

Unfortunately, my first random pick, Paris Blues, was disappointing. A Martin Ritt romantic melodrama of expat jazz cats Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman who fall in love with two American fans, one black and one Joanne Woodward. All the cliches of 1961 bohemian Paris were there, from the snapping of the fingers to the groovy beat, and the cocaine-addict gypsy guitarist, to the loaves of baguettes sticking out of paper shopping bags. Two scenes with Louis Armstrong and the Duke Ellington score elevated this banal soap opera a bit. 3/10.

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Before becoming an irreverent critic of right-wing hypocrisy (and more recently, an old man shouting at ‘woke’ kids to get off his libertarian lawn), Bill Maher was a youngish actor wannabe, trying his luck in Hollywood B-movies. His 'greatest’ success was in the ridiculous ‘comedy’ Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, a soft-porn fantasy written by a 14-year-old for an audience of 11-year-olds. But even his piggish guide “Jim” was not the stupidest part of this moronic, childish story. Even though it was obviously shot at the University of Riverside, the ditzy, scantly-clad bimbo joining the mission, had never been to San Bernardino ‘on the edge of the California avocado belt’. 1/10. 

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(My complete movie list is here)

#movies

[annoyingthemesong]

SUBLIME CINEMA #393 - A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE

There is not, has never been, and likely never will be another director quite like Roy Andersson. With massive lapses between films, he’s a true artist who creates his own projects from the ground up, according to a very specific and well refined vision. His early standout Songs From the Second Floor was so exquisite and surprising, I’d never seen anything like it. His trademark aesthetic involves meticulous production design and tableau imagery, a kind of twisted, Nordic version of Wes Anderson. His camera barely moves.

#cinema #film #filmmaker #filmmaking #roy andersson #a pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence #swedish #sweden #swedish cinema #scandi #dark comedy #brooding #dark #satire #satiric #films #movie #movies #great film #cinematography #production design #dark film #surreal #surrealism #surreal film

[kaos-teorema]

a pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence (roy andersson, 2014)

#a pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence #roy andersson #movie screenshots #movie frames