A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence 

“No one—really, no one—makes movies like Roy Andersson.”—The A.V. Club

Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the latest film by the Swedish genius Roy Andersson takes its title from a perverse reading of Bruegel’s 1565 painting The Hunters in the Snow. Like a modern day Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, two traveling salesmen peddling novelty items take us on a kaleidoscopic stroll through human destinies. This all plays out in Andersson’s distinctively detailed and mordantly comic vignettes, which took four years of rigorous planning and meticulous execution to capture. The film is the final part of Andersson’s trilogy “on being a human being,” after the remarkable Songs from the Second Floor and You, the Living. (101 mins., DCP)