Film Details

Winner of the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 2014 Venice Int’l Film Festival, this mordantly funny comedy from Sweden’s Roy Andersson concludes a trilogy begun with Songs from the Second Floor (2000) and You, the Living (2007). Like those previous masterpieces, Pigeon consists of a series of painterly, fixed-camera tableaux (37 to be exact) in which pasty-faced everymen enact the absurdist, deadpan slapstick of being human. We see salesmen sell, lovers neck, people dance, drink, and die. It’s a droll parade of human folly teetering on an existential precipice, and it variously evokes Jacques Tati, Wes Anderson, and Samuel Beckett. “Delightfully odd…A master class in comic timing.” –Variety.