A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
The 50 best films of 2015 in the UK
The 50 best films of 2015 in the UK – No 9: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on ExistenceContinuing our countdown of the best movies released in the UK this year, we take wing with Roy Andersson’s bizarre, hallucinatory parable that defies description
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The best films of 2015 so far – UKGathering together the best movies released in the UK this year, updated weekly
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya; A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence; P’tit Quinquin; The Voices; X+Y; The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death – reviewStudio Ghibli’s penultimate film is a beautiful, melancholic fairytale, while Roy Andersson finds a perverse hope in life’s futility
Box office analysis: UK
Avengers: Age of Ultron beats Fifty Shades for best UK opening since SkyfallA Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence review – Swede dreams
The Guardian Film Show
The Guardian Film Show: The Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Falling, Stonehearst Asylum and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence - audioThe Guardian film show
The Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Falling, Stonehearst Asylum and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence: the Guardian film show – video review
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence - video review
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence director Roy Andersson: 'I feel friendly to pigeons' – video interview
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence review – a unique hallucinatory trilogy
Film blog
We have ways of making you talk: how films survive the dubbing processWatching German versions of Inherent Vice, Chappie, Selma and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence reveals how much of the language of cinema is universal
Birdman's Oscar triumph ruffles feathers in Italy
Italian press criticise last year’s Venice film festival jury for not awarding the Golden Lion to the Oscar-winning satire
Films of 2015: they’re worth the wait
Don’t spoil next year’s great movies by gorging on trailers and teasers, says Xan Brooks
Venice film festival: thunder clouds and silver linings
A rainy week was brightened by a brilliant Willem Dafoe, a new Bogdanovich and a Swedish gem about two travelling salesmen, writes Xan Brooks
Swedish Pigeon bags Golden Lion: surrealist drama wins Venice film festival 2014
Roy Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence takes top prize at the 71st film festival, while Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence is runner up
First look review
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence review – Roy Andersson's glorious metaphysical burlesqueXan Brooks: The eccentric Swedish director of Songs from the Second Floor and You, the Living returns with a brilliantly distinctive film that no one else could have made
Roy Andersson: ‘I’m trying to show what it’s like to be human’
Jonna Dagliden: The Swedish director, whose film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence premieres at Venice next week, mourns society’s breakdown – and explains why he sees himself as a bird
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDsThe Tale of the Princess Kaguya; A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence; P’tit Quinquin; The Voices; X+Y; The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death – reviewStudio Ghibli’s penultimate film is a beautiful, melancholic fairytale, while Roy Andersson finds a perverse hope in life’s futility
