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En Duva Satt på en Gren och Funderade på Tillvaron (2014)

Comedy | 101 minutes
3,16 225 votes

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Duration: 101 minuten

Alternative title: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

Country: Sweden / Germany / Norway / France

Directed by: Roy Andersson

Stars: Holger Andersson, Charlotta Larsson and Viktor Gyllenberg

IMDb score: 6,9 (20.399)

Releasedate: 24 October 2014

En Duva Satt på en Gren och Funderade på Tillvaron plot

The third and concluding part of a trilogy. After 'Sånger från Andra Våningen' and Du Levande', this is the third part of Andersson's reflection on human existence. The focus is on two main characters, Jonathan and Sam, who appear in various scenes and meet different people. They make a journey through a timeless, geographically unspecified western landscape. One is an itinerant salesman; the other is slightly mentally retarded. It's the salesman who tells his friend why society is the way it is...

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leatherhead

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More than worthy third part. The least accessible of the three I think, because the humor here is even drier and scenes are stretched very long. It didn't bother me, because here too it was a pleasure to enjoy the absurd tableau vivants that Andersson presents from start to finish. Very dry, cynical, sometimes even a bit poignant. The scene with the ton slaves is perhaps one of the most impressive scenes I've seen in ages.

Besides being a unique filmmaker, Roy Andersson is also a very consistent one, because in terms of level all three parts are not very different from each other. Gonna check out his debut soon. 4* for this cabinet of curiosities, which by the way deserves respect because of its genius title alone.

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De filosoof

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What is immediately noticeable in Andersson's films is the consistent use of a static camera at a distance of about 10 meters so that each scene looks like a moving painting. And they are a kind of Hopper paintings because each scene mainly radiates a deep loneliness and emptiness. We see disenchanted, if not depressed, people who do their best to make the best of the gray, meaningless life, which has mostly unintended comic consequences: human existence is profoundly absurd. Andersson beautifully shows how our striving for contact hides an existential loneliness and that our attempts to give meaning to life are as futile as they are laughable (for this the objective camera approach in which we keep our distance from people seems functional). Andersson once said that he wants to show life and he succeeds very well in his tragicomic effect: we don't know whether to laugh or cry when we observe people's lives. What makes the films difficult is the meager plot development so that it seems like a series of absurd scenes without a story or depth. That also makes the movies a bit boring, but in the end that's exactly how real life is.

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Film Pegasus (moderator films)

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A humorous film that is sometimes reminiscent of the recent Flemish humor or Monty Python. But stylistically much nicer. The Swedish humor works incredibly well, even if as a film it is more of a collage than an actual whole. But there is plenty to see and now and then that humor does work. All this in an appropriate style that you can describe as fresh dull or gray pastel. Varying level, but a constant visual style. I think it could have been cut here and there.

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