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A pig farmer, a busboy, a salon owner, an expat architect and a jaded rich girl cross paths as thousands of dead pigs float down the Yangtze River toward Shanghai.
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Haishang Fucheng
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Really happy I had the opportunity to check this out on the big screen at the Atlanta Film Festival.
Director Cathy Yan is a perfect choice for the Harley Quinn feature. Great characters and tone. Builds tension well. Wonderful use of color.
Federico Cesca’s cinematography is gorgeous. Couldn’t even find production designer’s name on IMDb but kudos to whoever it is.
Executive produced by Zhangke Jia and stars Men Li from A Touch of Sin.
No US distributor yet.
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Cathy Yan's directional debut 'Dead Pigs' is A compelling but simple and relatable story, The cinematography is top-tier along with it’s extravagant soundtrack.. even subtitles is creatively done here I'm soo happy to finally seeing this movie. I've Waited for this long. If you have MUBI subscription definitely check this out.
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cathy yan's Magnolia (1999) moment!!! this is such an impressive debut i'm in AWE
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a remarkable debut from cathy yan, collecting the ruptures of inequality, gentrification, and commercialism—exhibited through 16,000 dead pigs.
lol girl you’re toast once PETA finds out about this
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Dead Pigs is the directorial feature from writer and director Cathy Yan. Yan was born in China but grew up mostly in the US, providing her with a cross-cultural aspect to the story that contrives to ask what a community is willing to relinquish in the unshackled individual quest of wealth. It pursues a cast of compelling characters that seamlessly overlap with one another in and around Shanghai and commences with a strange epidemic where pigs are dying en masse for reasons unknown.
It's an absurdist satire that's a commentary on modern China that doesn't carry itself too seriously. Thankfully though, it's entirely free from the tiresomeness that the director generated with Birds of Prey - the uncalled for spin-off…
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A rather wonderful hybrid of Johnnie To and Robert Altman, weaving multiple characters, themes and tones into one dizzying tableau that takes on everything from capitalism to the thickness of familial blood and the meaning of “home” (complete with massive doses of neon and karaoke cued musical numbers). Give Cathy Yan all the studio money now.
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Honestly think it’s highly unfortunate and greatly speaks to the commercial viability of independent and foreign cinema that this only got released in the US (and three years after its Sundance premiere, if I may add) because of the mostly positive reception of BIRDS OF PREY and not because it’s a film that deserves to be seen, but I guess that’s better than it not being released here at all. (Speaking of, this article is a great read: https://www.indiewire.com/2021/02/cathy-yan-dead-pigs-birds-of-prey-next-movie-1234616115/)
Anyway, Dead Pigs is pretty good! It does feel like a first feature at points and while I’m aware it’s Robert Altman-influenced, I do feel it could’ve benefitted from a tighter edit. That said, Cathy Yan shows more than a fair amount…
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Oh boy this is a very, very big debut. It’s a strange and sort of thrilling feeling to watch it from the future seeing what Cathy Yan went on to do with Birds of Prey. There is *so* much in this that I know I’ll need to rewatch in ~24 hours (don’t you love a streaming release? I love a streaming release) but while I was a little on the fence when this ended I then saw someone say this is like the “Wise Up” scene in MAGNOLIA stretched out into a movie and I’d add to that that it does so like half a key higher and makes sure there’s a pink and teal disco light spinning throughout the whole song. Or something like that. More coherent/substantial thoughts after another viewing soon!
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Dead Pigs is a quirky satire on the ever-modernising, rapidly developing China which has emerged in recent years. Through a large cast of characters, it explores the huge distance in society between the rural poor and the urban Westernised world being created. Rising materialism and changing economic forces run rampant. Dead Pigs centres on this bizarre mixture in a nation plowing ahead with growth. As the West becomes stagnant, Dead Pigs ironically depicts a Chinese idolisation of the West. Individualism over family is a part of this perhaps. One person stands up against the changes, but she is just an individual against a ginormous force that comes from all power centres, economic and social.
Dead Pigs is a reminder that…