Synopsis
In the French countryside it's the day for peasants to kill a big fat pig. The slaughter goes on for a great part of the day as they work to store 140kg worth of meat.
1970 ‘Le Cochon’ Directed by Jean Eustache, Jean-Michel Barjol
In the French countryside it's the day for peasants to kill a big fat pig. The slaughter goes on for a great part of the day as they work to store 140kg worth of meat.
Featuring a cast of beautiful and dedicated actors who speak every line with cigarettes in their mouths and never once look at the camera. Ritual without hypocrisy as an affirmation of life. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
As many people are now cut off from the reality of where meat comes from, this film may have value if it deters some from eating meat. But it's been described by critics i've read as generous, graceful and beautiful in its depiction of the pig being slaughtered and then butchered. It's admired for being appreciative of the honest work done by the group of farmer-slaughterers. Hard cold critics, the pig the beauty.
LOL I love how the little dogs are watching their owners butcher the hell out of this pig.
One of the most startling images i've ever seen in cinema is when the pig's head is hung on the wall.
Eustache never repeats himself.
La vida, de repente. Es lo que Dziga Vertov perseguía en su cine. Eustache, por el contrario, propone un ejercicio reflexivo extracinematográfico acerca del concepto. Una matanza de un cerdo. Una de esas matanzas comunes en cualquier pueblo francés, italiano o español. En la que el cerdo se desangra, deshuella, descuartiza y trocea para después servirse o conservarse.
La totalidad del proceso en cuarenta minutos de atenta mirada inerte. La exploración del suceso divaga entre la curiosidad y el morbo. Pero la reflexión viene tras ver la película, como sucede con las “cosas” de Warhol. ¿Hay o no hay trasfondo en la cuestión? Para Eustache el cine no podía distanciarse nada (o casi nada) de la realidad y si por…
wonderful in and of itself, but also an apt reminder of how thoroughly absent depictions of labor are from the representational mainstream. for example: try to remember the last time you saw a major film release which gave you any real understanding of how a character does their blue-collar job, on the level of actual physical actions taking specific amounts of time. is it any wonder "the working class" is treated so abstractly by the media when their literal defining characteristic has been so thoroughly dissimulated by the cultural machine?
LOL I love how the little dogs are watching their owners butcher the hell out of this pig.
One of the most startling images i've ever seen in cinema is when the pig's head is hung on the wall.
Eustache never repeats himself.
Featuring a cast of beautiful and dedicated actors who speak every line with cigarettes in their mouths and never once look at the camera. Ritual without hypocrisy as an affirmation of life. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
As many people are now cut off from the reality of where meat comes from, this film may have value if it deters some from eating meat. But it's been described by critics i've read as generous, graceful and beautiful in its depiction of the pig being slaughtered and then butchered. It's admired for being appreciative of the honest work done by the group of farmer-slaughterers. Hard cold critics, the pig the beauty.
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