En duva satt på en gren och funderade över tilvaron (2014)

	Also Known As: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Eine Taube sitzt auf einem Zweig und denkt über das Leben nach
	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Roy Andersson
	Actors: Nils Westblom (Sam), Holger Andersson (Jonathan), Per Bergqvist u. Solveig Andersson (Paar im Museum), Viktor Gyllenberg (Karl XII)
	Country: S
	Genre: Black comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 31.10.2014, CineStar3, NFDL2014, OV Swedish with German subtitles
Synopsis: As salesmen of novelty articles, Sam (Westblom) and Jonathan (Andersson) mean to spread a bit of joy among the people. The two take on their task without much success and with a tinge of melancholy, for it's a struggle to dispel gray loneliness from the world. With vampire teeth, canned laughter and monster masks in their luggage, Sam and Jonathan try to raise their fellow humans' spirits. But sales aren't really their thing, and often enough they're left holding the goods. Permanently broke, they argue about the best strategy for presenting their products.
Review: The movie is built with many episodes, some of them with the salesmen. Some others and actually for me the best ones are in a bar. Each episode is shot as a sequence-shot. Especially difficult for one scene with plenty of horses.  The colour and the picture (pale yellow, monotone, studio) reminds me strongly the previous movies by Andersson Songs from the second floor and You, the living and the humour (absurd things) looks a bit like the excellent Kitchen stories. This time I had even the impression that the faces were white painted to enhance this pale photography. Actually the producer explained after the movie that it has been shot exactly at the same location as the two above-mentioned movies by Andersson. The faces were painted also in the previous movies, but I did not notice at that time, or I just do not remember. The problem with the humour is that unlike Kitchen stories, it comes very seldom so that some it is hard to pay attention to the movie for long time but you have to, not to miss the few humourous peaks.
Rating: 4 /10