Independent Spirit Awards: Nominee Best International Film

The delightfully dark and hilarious A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, written and directed by Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson, offers a variety of unique observations, via sketches and musical numbers, of both the mundane and the unusual moments of daily life in all their absurdities. Part of Andersson’s “Living trilogy”, which includes Songs from the Second Floor (2000), and You, the Living (2007).

If the Monty Python guys had grown up in Sweden it might look something like this: