Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: I rischi di manierismo e di formalismo sono sempre presenti, in un film che sembra arrivare letteralmente da un altro mondo.
- Chris Barsanti @ Film Journal International
- Excerpt: This loosely linked string of dolorous philosophical vignettes from Swedish surrealist Roy Andersson unspools with a deft, almost buried humor that rescues it from tedium.
- Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Andersson’s so skilled he can elicit laughter with a character walking into a frame…In thirty-nine scenes, “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence” makes us look at ourselves as if we were a visiting alien race…
- [New – 12/31/15] | Daniel Lackey @ The Nightmare Gallery
- Excerpt: This absurdist examination of humanity isn’t for everyone, but those in tune with the peculiar wavelength of its broadcasts will find it deeply affecting.
- Mathieu Li-Goyette @ Panorama-cinéma [French]
- Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
- Excerpt: A funny, enchanting, disturbing vision from an extraordinary artist.
- Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence’ is the perfect title for a Roy Andersson film, evoking the concepts of detachment, alienness, and existential contemplation that mark the Swede’s strange ruminations on the human condition.
- Ron Wilkinson @ Monsters and Critics
- Excerpt: Take a walk on the wild side with thirty nine scenes that make the complicated trivial.
