Question: Which film has the director who was born first, The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond Of Matches (Film) or A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence?

An adaptation of Gaétan Soucy's novel of the same name, the film centres on Alice Soissons (Marine Johnson), a girl raised to believe she is a boy, who lives in with her father and brother in oppressive and secluded conditions. When her father dies, she ventures into the village, where outsiders tell her she is female, and she fears the family home is now under threat. The adaptation was filmed in Montreal, Quebec and the Laurentides and shot in black and white. The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches  is a 2017 Canadian drama film directed by Simon Lavoie and starring Marine Johnson, Antoine L'Écuyer and Jean-François Casabonne. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was nominated for seven Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Motion Picture. <SEP> " Songs from the Second Floor", more than any other, cemented and exemplified his personal style – which is characterized by long takes, absurdist comedy, stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and Felliniesque grotesque. He has spent much of his professional life working on advertisement spots, directing over 400 commercials and two short films, but only directing six feature- length films in six decades. His 2014 film" A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence" won the Golden Lion award at 71st Venice International Film Festival, making Andersson the only Swedish director and the second Nordic director to win the award in the history of the festival, after Danish Carl Theodor Dreyer won in 1955. Roy Arne Lennart Andersson( born 31 March 1943) is a Swedish film director, best known for" A Swedish Love Story"( 1970) and his" Living trilogy," which includes" Songs from the Second Floor"( 2000)," You, the Living"( 2007) and" A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence"( 2014). Andersson is considered one of the most important living European film directors, having four films officially submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as Swedish entries. <SEP> He is best known as codirector with Mathieu Denis of" Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves( Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'o nt fait que se creuser un tombeau)", which won the award for Best Canadian Film at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival and garnered several Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, including for Best Picture and Best Director. He made a number of short films — including" Une chapelle blanche", which won the Prix Jutra for Best Short Film in 2006 — before making his feature film debut in 2008 with" Le déserteur". He first collaborated with Denis on the 2011 film" Laurentie", and followed up with" The Torrent( Le Torrent)" in 2012. His next project," The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches( La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes)", a film adaptation of Gaétan Soucy's novel of the same name, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2017. Simon Lavoie( born May 15, 1979) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. It received an honorable mention for Best Canadian Film, and received a nomination for Best Motion Picture at the 2018 Canadian Screen Awards. <SEP> It is the third installment in his" Living" trilogy, following" Songs from the Second Floor"( 2000) and" You, the Living"( 2007). It premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival where it was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Film. It was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. It s title is a reference to the 1565 painting" The Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The painting depicts a rural wintertime scene, with some birds perched on tree branches. Andersson said he imagined that the birds in the scene are watching the people below, wondering what they are doing. He explained the title of the film as a" different way of saying' what are we actually doing', that's what the movie is about." At the Venice Film Festival, Andersson said that the film had been inspired by the 1948 Italian film" Bicycle Thieves" by Vittorio De Sica. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence is a 2014 internationally co-produced black comedy- drama film written and directed by Roy Andersson. <SEP> You, the Living is a 2007 Swedish black comedy- drama film written and directed by Roy Andersson. The film is an exploration of the" grandeur of existence," centered on the lives of a group of individuals, such as an overweight woman, a disgruntled psychiatrist, a heartbroken groupie, a carpenter, a business consultant, and a school teacher with emotional problems and her rug-selling husband. The basis for the film is an Old Norse proverb," Man is man's delight," taken from the" Poetic Edda" poem" Hávamál". The title comes from a stanza in Goethe's" Roman Elegies", which also appears as a title card in the beginning of the film:" Therefore rejoice, you, the living, in your lovely warm bed, until Lethe's cold wave wets your fleeing foot." The film consists of a fluent succession of fifty short sketches, most with a tragicomic undertone. The cast is mostly non-professional, and alienating techniques are employed such as presenting the characters in grim make- up and having them talk directly to camera. The financing was difficult and the shooting took three years to complete. The film won the Silver Hugo Award for Best Direction at the 2007 Chicago International Film Festival and has received critical acclaim. It is the second film in a trilogy, preceded by" Songs from the Second Floor"( 2000) and followed by" A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence"( 2014). <SEP> Songs from the Second Floor is a Swedish black comedy- drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 6 October 2000, written and directed by Roy Andersson. It presents a series of disconnected vignettes that together interrogate aspects of modern life. The film uses many quotations from the work of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo as a recurring motif. It is the first film in a trilogy, followed by" You, the Living"( 2007) and" A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence"( 2014).