Inspired by Breugel’s Hunters in the Snow and Dostoevsky, Swedish director Roy Andersson’s concluding part of his remarkable trilogy is certain to be one of the stand-out features of 2015. A panoramic view of human existence framed through the world-view of two world-weary travelling joke salesmen, it’s a kaleidoscopic wandering through human existence that looks at human kind’s capacity for cruelty, pettiness and inhumanity. Featuring the director’s trademark tableaux framing and astonishingly executed set-pieces that unfold on a mammoth scale, the film combines nightmare and fantasy to unique and disarming effect. The winner of the prestigious Venice Film Festival Golden Lion, it’s a film that is for the curious, the inquisitive but certainly not for the faint-hearted.
A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence
Directed by Roy Andersson