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Audience Response

Audience Reaction: Force Majeure

The audience gave tonight’s film ‘Force Majeure‘ a score of 50.78%.

Here are their comments:

  • Bit slow, but v. Bergmanesque & sinister. Show more Swedish films!
    Well worth showing. Poor Thomas! Why the bus ending. I won’t be going on a skiing holiday.
  • Humorous, poignant, off-beam, Nordic!
  • My perception of the film was coloured by the fact I cannot see any attraction to skiing or staying in hotels or being with the people in the film. Either the married people or the single people or the adulterous couple. I just couldn’t relate to any of it at all.
  • Different: Slow. Colourless. Humour-good. Thought provoking.
  • A bit slow, but worth seeing.
  • People in a mid-life crisis!
  • A few fine moments with humour… Interesting thoughts on relationships but overall it didn’t really work for me!
  • An odd film but think I enjoyed.
  • 6/10
  • Overlong – chilling in places and some bold statements about family + relationships – but uneven.
  • Boring and tedious. The underlying plot was sound but the screenplay didn’t do it justice.
Audience Response

Audience Reaction: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

The audience gave the film ‘A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence‘ a score of 24%.

Here are the comments:

  • Poor choice made film night not a good choice.
  • Started promisingly with very black humour, but after a while the joke wore off and it just became frustrating. Some excellent composition and some stand out moments à la Bunuel, Beckett and even The League of Gentlemen. But overlong and perhaps too alienating.
  • I think I can say that was the strangest film I have ever seen at PFC. I will remember it though. Lottas sko i Göteborg (1943) – you had to be there…
  • A surreal slant on humanity.
  • Loved it!
  • Not quite sure what I’ve just watched?
  • How on earth did this film win the Golden Lion?
  • Not much on the TV.
  • ???
  • What was that all about then eh?
  • Bizzare! + Beige very Swedish.
  • Lost 2 hrs of my life.
  • A series of surreal pastiches portraying humanity in a mostly sad and sorry state with whiffs of Python-style humour. You probably won’t come out feeling happy!