Wedding Trough (1975)
"Vase de noces" (original title)

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.

Director:

Thierry Zéno

Writers:

Dominique Garny (screenplay), John Kupferschmidt,

Stars:

Dominique Garny

Cast

Cast overview:
Dominique Garny	...	Farmer

Storyline

An art-house black and white film without dialogue. It's about a man who lives alone on a farm with his pigs. He falls in love with his sow, has offscreen sex with her, and later she gives birth to human/porcine hybrids.

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Plot Keywords:

piglet | pig | farm | mentally retarded person | duck | 

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Genres:

Horror | Romance

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

Belgium

Release Date:

14 June 1975 (Japan)

Also Known As:

One Man and His Pig

Company Credits

Production Co:

Zéno Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

There is no dialogue in this film.

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Connections

Featured in Brows Held High: Vase De Noces (2012)

User Reviews

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.