Swedish director Roy Andersson will fight for the first time for the Golden Lion with his new film “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence«.
Despite only having six films to date in almost five decades of his career, the director has won the award for best film four times at the Guldbagge Awards, the Swedish Film Academy awards.
In addition, the Swedish director has been present at the Berlinale, where he won two awards in 1970 for «A Swedish Love Story»And at the Cannes Film Festival where in 2000 he received the Jury Prize for«Songs from the Second Floor«.
Now Roy Andersson attends the Venice Film Festival with “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence”, a film that focuses on two street vendors selling novelty items, two losers between 50 and 60 years old, who discover beauty, pettiness, humor and the tragedy that is present in the human being. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in a modern version.
The debutants Holger Anderson y Nisse vestblom star in this Swedish production halfway between drama and comedy.