Vase de noces (1974)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Thierry Zéno

Writers:

Dominique Garny (screenplay)
Thierry Zéno (writer)

Release Date:

14 June 1975 (Japan)

Genre:

Horror | Romance

Plot:

A mad farmer falls in love with his pig and has mutant piglets with it. When the "piglets" prefer their mother over him, he hangs them all and the sow kills herself.

Plot Keywords:

Pig | Farm | Extreme Film | Excrement Eating | Directorial Debut

Cast

Dominique Garny

...

Farmer

Also Known As:

One Man and His Pig
The Pig Fucking Movie (International: English title) (informal alternative title)
Wedding Trough (International: English title)

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

Belgium

Language:

None

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Not Rated | New Zealand:(Banned) | Australia:(Banned)

Company:

Zéno Films

Trivia:

There is no dialogue in this film.

Goofs:

Continuity: About one hour into the movie, he climbs into a hole with his pig. When he buries himself in the dirt he is fully clothed, but when he climbs back out he is undressed.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Of Pigs and Men (2009) (V)

nearly a masterpiece

"Vase de Noces" is an outstanding flick . Its meaning is obvious: it's an allegory about obsession (not a particular one, provided that the particulars - teaching the pigs good manners, marrying a sow, collecting feces - are totally inane , but any mind-destroying compulsion developed in insulation ) which finally leads the obsessed one to destroy his sick love and finally himself. There is an identification man <-> obsessions and when the objects of the obsession fail, we understand that our hero is necessarily doomed. The fact that it's very graphical and disturbing is functional to the message. It is beautifully shot with great mastership of the medium, the music comment is awesome and Dominique Garny plays "heroically" his role. Now this can sound like a provocation but I think that one of the good things in this movie is that it is never excessive. The same plot in the hands of a less skilled director/actor would result in a mere shocker movie full of bad taste (imagine this movie in "Technicolor" or directed by john waters), not in that lonely descent to hell depicted by this outstanding movie. Its limit is that the story could reach a higher expressive impact if developed by a more creative director - I imagine that some Pasolini or Lynch could do even better than this.

And as pointed out before, one who willfully watches a movie called "the pig-f***ing movie" automatically loses his right to complain.

One last word to that plethora of Philistines who commented on this thread so far: "when the finger points at the moon, the ... look at the finger" . Please spare us your nonsenses. We already know that feces and pigs are gross, find some other argument or change your schedule.