Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Doctor_Phil People have been duped into thinking that a film is realistic if each thing in it, taken by itself, is realistic. But the selection and assemblage into a whole is what makes a film, and Roy Andersson's selection is not a realistic look at life. It is a relentless montage of death and despair. Life is better than this.In context, it is just another dreary product of the post-modernist highbrow elite trying to convince the masses that their lives aren't worth living, in the hopes that they will destroy their culture so that they, the elite, can build a new utopia on its ashes.(Also, it's extremely boring. If Andersson had eliminated all of the disconnected scenes, including most of the ones at the start of the film, it would just be boring, which would be a great improvement.)

I-Am-The-Movie-Addict watching this flick wouldn't be possible if i hadn't come across ROY ANDERSSON's name and his body of works 3 months ago. but now i have so it becomes my duty to tell what this film is all about and why you should be watching it nevertheless if you don't watch films like these or don't want to gamble onto some unheard director-writer.this film as pre-told in a synopsis by IMDb tells about Sam and Jonathan, a pair of hapless novelty salesman who goes through various real and non-real situations. but according to me, it is more of different people told as situation and occurrence wise. it just happens that these two salesmen becomes the eyes of what goes around. Even there are many things which cannot be said in few words to explain what the film is about. To sum up, i can say that it is about events and conditions of human related and to where and how they live. Some go through normalcy while others through weird and out of this world.if you want to hook up with this film you need to also go through his previous works and 2 prequels of this third part. i am not saying that it is continuous but revolves around same atmosphere to know what the filmmaker and the film is telling about.at last, if you are one of those who have a keen and sharp eye for small and unnoticeable things that play a vital role in life and living then this will work wonders for you plus don't fail to guess that fun and absurd comedy is also a part of the troop that will make you love and take note of things in life that films like this come up to reveal to us when we are lost in something we don't know about.

ApostleOfDirt To quote a fellow reviewer that pretty much nailed it: "This movie is the film equivalent of hanging an Ikea painting in an art gallery and tell people it's an expensive masterpiece." I don't know what the creator of this movie wanted to achieve. Maybe he was on some kind of mind twist combo of antidepressant drugs, that made him believe the depressing nothingness is the new funny. To call this movie a dark comedy would be like calling a EST a great roller coaster ride. It's not comedy. It's not dark. It is time wasting, random pile of boring scenes. Nothing to learn, just the feeling of what am I doing here, why would anyone in their right mind wanna watch this. If nothing else this movie could be a nice testament to how a movie can be bloated to have artistic value when it's actually quite the opposite. I say to the the emperor is naked and fat. >Go watch this movie only if you need money badly and someone offers money to you if you watch this movie.

Red-125 The Swedish Movie "En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron" was shown in the US as "A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)" It was written and directed by Roy Andersson.We saw this movie, along with a friend, in the excellent Dryden Theatre of Eastman House in Rochester, NY. The staff person who introduced the film went on and on about what a genius Roy Andersson is, how lucky we are that the Dryden could bring it to Rochester, etc. etc. The IMDb rating was a very respectable 7.3. How could we go wrong?All three of us left the Dryden thinking, "Was he talking about the same movie we just saw"? It was called a black comedy. The only problem with that description is that the movie wasn't funny. It was disjointed, more or less random, with running jokes that also weren't funny. Two scenes at the end were pathological and disturbing. The two recurring characters--sort of a Laurel and Hardy pair--were depressed and depressing. And, just to turn the movie into a laugh riot, King Charles XII appears on his way to and from the terrible Swedish defeat at the Battle of Poldova.Be sure to miss this movie. If I had a choice between seeing it again and undergoing root canal work, I'm not sure what I'd do. Save yourself the agony. If you want to see a Swedish film, see "The Seventh Seal." See "The Emigrants." See anything, just not this movie.