movie poster for PIGSTY

Flicks ID

14268

Cert

15

Running time

95 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

PIGSTY (1969)

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

Plot

Two dramatic stories. First a young cannibal, guilty of patricide, is condemned to be torn to pieces by wild beasts. In the second story the young son of a post-war German industrialist is off to join the farm's pigs because he doesn't like humans. A savage parody of Godard, Resnais and Pasolini himself, ironically chronicling the 'existential anguish' of the children of the bourgeoisie. It features Léaud as a mystic youth whose being finally merges with 'nature', he gets eaten by the pigs he loves. 'Porcile' is not only an exquisitely revolting satire, it is also Pasolini's most fascinating piece of cinema........so say the 'reviewers' anyway.