Vase de noces (1974)

Director:

Thierry Zéno

Writers:

Dominique Garny (screenplay)
John Kupferschmidt (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 | Minimal Cast | Vomiting | Hanging

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)
Svinet (Sweden) (DVD title) [sv]

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:

Shown at the Locarno International Film Festival (Switzerland) in August 2008

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)

Intense "Vases De Noces" gives a disturbing look at the end of man's survival

I approached Vases De Noces with sheer caution, knowing what would lie ahead of me and all the talk surrounding it, it remains as strange, quiet, savage and disgusting. It has scenes that are revolting and ugly, you could beg the film for mercy to end and it still lingers on the screen like smoke. Vases De Noces could be on a category of its own. We see things as bestiality, corophagia, urine-drinking, etc and it does not shy away on what we can do is just stare or just close our eyes. Others have said that it's disgusting, vile, nasty, and sick and I have to agree that the film is not so enjoyable.

Sure all of this could make out that Vases De Noces (aka The *beep* movie) is such a wretched film that could leave you nauseated and would make you not look at an animal for a while, why is there a movie like Vases De Noces around? Was it done to just shock, disgust? Or enjoy? I could say the first two, knowing what I would wouldn't see. It is a film that has disappeared from out of thin air, nowhere to be found for someone to see and if they did, they shouldn't.

What I found so fascinating is how the farmer lives, he uses hot coals to take baths, prays before he eats, does his business in a portable toilet. Lingers about his farm tending to his chickens or putting dolls on them or just frolicking with his pig.Sure, frolicking with his beloved pig; chasing it around, rolling around the manure,until finally having sex that made me flinch in disgust, it's not too graphic but weirdly well done.Many reviewers have focus on the content and how tedious it is,never noticing how the sky and landscape shows how the post-apocalyptic the world is. After the pig has died and the Farmer burying himself with the pig, it is lurid.There is an amazing long shot of the black and white landscape fading slowly before the Farmer rises from the pigs grave. A strange but funny scene when the farmer eats and feeds his offspring, the little piglets run over to his plate. Refusing their food only to eat his and again and again he puts them back to their plate only to find them going back to his plate.

This review will make you think I enjoyed this film,although I can admit that I only enjoyed the cinematography and the isolation of the farmer.Watching this after watching the tedious Nekromantik 2 which went on and went on, I was engulfed from the loneliness of the farmer.Like the first original Nekromantik, the hero kills himself after it's horrific lifestyle in a very enigmatic way.Not much things are explained and I don't mind at all. I settle in giving Vases De Noces three stars out of four or a 6 1/2 out of 10, Not to saying I hated it or loved it, all I could tell you is don't watch it.