A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
- sombre
- slow-burn
- surreal
- bleak
- signature
Sombre, slow-burn, gentle comedy / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
Our read · A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, surreal comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
What watching it is actually like.
“You want glacial, pitch-black comedy tableaux about human cruelty and futility.”
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The reading.
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