If you ever, wonder what 1996's 'Babe' would be like, if it was directed by an insane art house Belgium director, named Thierry Zéno, then here you go. 'Wedding Trough' AKA 'Vase de noces' is a 1970s art house silence film, about a crazy disturb nameless farmer, (Dominique Garny) who falls in love with his pig, which leads to first bestiality, rape, and then, murder, when the relationship to him, has turned soured. Without spoiling the movie, too much, I have to say, this film is clumsy as a hog on ice. It really tries hard to be, a smart avant-garde, but it come across as more dull & pretentious, than ever. As one scholar puts it, people all over the world have made swine stand for "extremes of human joy or fear, celebration, ridicule, and repulsion." Sadly, this film fails to show much of that. Its content is as a dead pig in the sunshine. Very offensive, rather than beautiful. The film does really does pushes the boundaries of what is accepted. Yet. I'll, at least, try to understand this film on its own terms. For this reason, everything in it is left to interpretation. Synonymous with negative attributes, especially greed, gluttony, and uncleanliness, and these ascribed attributes have often led to critical comparisons between pigs and humans. In the film, they try to show this, by having the farmer father pig mutant babies, however, since the movie had no funds to make convincing half-human pig children. They just used regular piglets to show the farmer, humanity side. The farmer, at first, tries hard to teach and treat the animals as if they were human beings. He allows them to share the dinner table, his clothes, his bed, and his house. This is foreshadowed by the man putting a doll head on a pigeon. However, he gets frustration, due to their lack of manners and their instinct animalistic behavior. In the end, he is the one that degenerate, the furthest, showing how beastly, human being can become; which is foreshadowed, by the cutting of the head of the hen, in the beginning of the film. If you look further, into the black and white film, it seem to me, that the man is a condemned soul that living in what looks like, a post Rapture world, as there is nobody else, around, besides him and Beelzebub (AKA the Pig). Because of this, the man feels like he is dirty, thus he act like an animal. He's mentally disturbed. However, I don't feel, he's autism, like the filmmakers would love to claim. Being autism, doesn't cause people to eat their own feces. No, this type of a behavior has to come, with the setting, in which, he lives. Without mankind to judge him; it allows the beast inside the man to do, whatever, he wants. Typically, the film works the same way, as if allows the audience to watch it, without being judge. Yet, I have a feeling, the majority of people that, somehow like, this film, has that same disturb mental mindset. In my opinion, I think all these scenes, where he demonstrates bizarre behavior is not right. I don't like this movie, at all, not only, due to the large amount of animal cruelty, but badly paced, it is. The scene of him eating his feces lasts for almost half an hour, nearly a third of the movie. It really badly edited. Not only that, but the film is way too repetitive. In short, the film seem, least than an art house film, and more like weird fetish porno. It even has that weird techno mixed with classical music soundtrack to add to the pain. It seem like it was made for the purpose of sexual arousal. After all, some cultures believe that the pig represent the symbol of virility, strength, and fertility and no amount of disagreement against Kafkaesque and Freudian theories on human automata can delay that. While this film never held a theatrical release, it did have a limited festival run, building its notoriety around the world. One such, screening was at the Perth International Film Festival of 1975, in which, upset, the audiences, so much, that it was latter essentially ban in Australia and New Zealand, where it remained largely unchanged since then, due to in part that the film still violates Australian obscenity laws. Its controversial subject and explicit execution continue to create chaos, in other countries as, others refused to show it as the claims that all of the pig sex scenes were simulated, might not be, true. In the end, "Vase de noces" has become one of the rarest films that isn't a "lost film", because of that. It wasn't until 2009, when the German distributor Camera Obscura and the Swedish company Njuta Films released Region 2 copies of the movie, that the film found its way on video and the dark places of the internet. There is also a documentary, about the making of the film, out there, but I have yet, to watch it. Overall: I really couldn't tolerate, watching this explicit movie at all, even with my weird sense of morbid curiously. The reason, why, I watch it, in the first place, was, because I foolish, mistook it, for the 1981's comedy, 'Porky' at the time. In the end, I really can't recommended, watching this sadistically evil film. Like the Jewish, & Muslims cultures, it just better to stay away from this pig. Indeed, this movie indeed shows, that you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Like the Great Porky Pigs says, 'That's all, folks'.
23 Reviews
You wanted pig-boinking. You found it....
Copaface30 April 2009
Now I will admit I am a huge fan of any film deemed disturbing, gross or wrong (my download collection includes all of the Guinea Pig movies, Un Chien Andalou, Nekromantik among many others) and it actually took me a while to hear of Vase de Noces. I eventually heard about it on Listverse on a list of Top Ten Most Disturbing Movies. It was not on the list but someone had suggested it in the comments. On looking it up on IMDb I knew instantly that it must be added to my library of gross movies... After hours battling with The Pirate Bay, Limewire and Youtorrent (I don't pay for anything. Sue me.) I managed to download a full VHSrip of the movie (which I will happily send to anyone who wants it :] message me) and I watched it alone one night... If, like me, you love the grossness of films like this, you will not be disappointed. Otherwise I wouldn't recommend it. I admit it was hard to concentrate on the artiness of the film when man-pig breeding and coprophagia is going on but I did take a few minutes to appreciate the surreal aura of the film. As artsy as it is you gotta admit, somebody's gotta be smoking something to come up with this idea. Then again, this seems like the kind of idea I would come up with... It is definitely an acquired taste and it takes someone with guts of steel to really appreciate it. But I say go for it! It can't be worse than Two Girls One Cup...
Grotesque for "normal" people, but with a symbol behind it
Elvis-Del-Valle24 March 2023
Vase De Noces earns the title as one of the most disturbing and grotesque films ever made for obvious reasons. It's not a movie that anyone can do and I don't blame anyone for seeing it in a bad light. The film has a very short story and for ordinary people it is very easy to define it as the story of a farmer with mental problems who has relationships with his sow, but the end of the film (which may be nonsense for many) suggests that there is something else behind. The film also has a certain symbolism behind it if one takes into account the appearance of the building that looks like a church and the soundtrack that sounds evangelical. In addition, here he tries to use the relationship between man and sow to say that animals and humans are equal and it shows that they try to humanize the sow. It is a film that clearly must be seen much beyond what the images show, but it is not easy at all. To conclude, as a disturbing film it manages to make an impact, but as a film in itself it is not good and it is not recommended for anyone, it is a film that has to be seen with a different look. My final grade for this film is 4/10.
Kids! You know what time it is? That's right... it's post-apocalyptic pig-boinking time!
Torgo_Approves19 March 2007
Can you think of anything more interesting than seeing a demented farmer walk around his farm for 80 minutes, occasionally playing dress-up with his birds, beheading his chickens, and having steamy sex with his wife, who happens to be a pig? I know I can. Which is quite sad, because the description on IMDb really made this seem like a movie worth seeing, if only for its originality and absurdity. Unfortunately, everything negative that has been said about this movie is true: it moves at a snail's pace, it's uninteresting, very disgusting, and ultimately not worth seeing. I fail to see the deeper meaning of a man running around naked in the mud chasing a sow, but then again, I never was that good at reading between the lines. What do I know? Maybe this is the epitome of genius, but I found it to be a waste of time and chances are that so will you. Don't see this movie.
But any advice that I give you is not going to matter anyway, is it? You're probably going to see the film out of sheer morbid curiosity anyway. After all, how could any fan of obscure film pass up the chance to see something called "The Pig F----ng Movie"? You just decide for yourself how much time you really want to waste on this... um... "film". Don't say I didn't warn you!
But any advice that I give you is not going to matter anyway, is it? You're probably going to see the film out of sheer morbid curiosity anyway. After all, how could any fan of obscure film pass up the chance to see something called "The Pig F----ng Movie"? You just decide for yourself how much time you really want to waste on this... um... "film". Don't say I didn't warn you!
Quite possibly the worst film ever made.
theskulI4214 July 2008
Warning: Spoilers
It's a movie about a guy f-cking a pig. I mean, come on, I HAD to watch it.
Anyway, the problem with the film is not that he f-cks a pig and has pig-human hybrid babies. I expected it to be icky. I'm good with icky. What I'm not good with is BORING and the problem here is the outright lameness of the enterprise. Poor-quality video, poor-quality audio, and just overall poor quality. The film is plodding, muddled, nonsensical, amateurish and just overall bad.
I mean, this is the kind of movie that you would EXPECT to have poor technical quality, but that doesn't make it any more allowable. Some of you might be saying, "That sounds f-cking insane, I've GOT to see that!" and I'm here to tell you: No. No, you don't. More boring than it is icky, it just overall sucks, even for a movie about a guy f-cking a pig.
{Grade: 0/10 (F) / #32 (of 32) of 1974}
Anyway, the problem with the film is not that he f-cks a pig and has pig-human hybrid babies. I expected it to be icky. I'm good with icky. What I'm not good with is BORING and the problem here is the outright lameness of the enterprise. Poor-quality video, poor-quality audio, and just overall poor quality. The film is plodding, muddled, nonsensical, amateurish and just overall bad.
I mean, this is the kind of movie that you would EXPECT to have poor technical quality, but that doesn't make it any more allowable. Some of you might be saying, "That sounds f-cking insane, I've GOT to see that!" and I'm here to tell you: No. No, you don't. More boring than it is icky, it just overall sucks, even for a movie about a guy f-cking a pig.
{Grade: 0/10 (F) / #32 (of 32) of 1974}
Boar-ing.
BA_Harrison14 May 2011
Given the rather blunt international title, it should come as no surprise to find that 70s Belgian art-house oddity Vase de Noces is about a guy getting jiggy with a piggy, but the content isn't just limited to (presumably simulated) bestiality: there's all sorts of other deviancy on display, some of which proves even more disturbing than the man-on-swine action. During the course of the film, the viewer is also treated to countless shots of mating farmyard birds, excessive full-frontal male nudity, some animal cruelty, and, towards the end, nauseating scenes of coprophagia.
Naturally, the promise of such wanton depravity and filth is bound to attract those film-fans who like their entertainment to push the boundaries, but be warned... even though this is seriously warped stuff, it is also an extremely boring experience thanks to director Thierry Zéno's insufferable artistic pretensions: shot in black and white without a single word of dialogue for the entire 80 minutes running time, the film regularly cuts from the more freaky fare to offer up lingering shots of chickens and turkeys strutting round the farm or mind-numbingly monotonous scenes of the farmer arranging jars, playing with a hoop and stick, preparing lunch and having a bath (all of which is accompanied by a suitably strange soundtrack consisting of unconvincing post-production sound effects, avant-garde choral music and surreal electronic bleeping).
Naturally, the promise of such wanton depravity and filth is bound to attract those film-fans who like their entertainment to push the boundaries, but be warned... even though this is seriously warped stuff, it is also an extremely boring experience thanks to director Thierry Zéno's insufferable artistic pretensions: shot in black and white without a single word of dialogue for the entire 80 minutes running time, the film regularly cuts from the more freaky fare to offer up lingering shots of chickens and turkeys strutting round the farm or mind-numbingly monotonous scenes of the farmer arranging jars, playing with a hoop and stick, preparing lunch and having a bath (all of which is accompanied by a suitably strange soundtrack consisting of unconvincing post-production sound effects, avant-garde choral music and surreal electronic bleeping).
One of the Most Vial Movies Created
chrisjoy5 November 2007
Warning: Spoilers
This 'film' has to be one of the most sordid films every produced. For people to even suggest that Olof_kmek's comment was useful has either never seen this movie, or has no idea what this film is about. This film has nothing to do with love, but pure sadistic acts of bestiality, coprophagia, murder, and suicide.
The film has a very incoherent plot structure, and is difficult to describe chronologically due to several strange and often random scenes interweaved into the overall story. Such displays consist of the farmer fastening doll heads to pigeons, cutting off the head of a chicken, and collecting strange materials in jars. A farmer, who may be the last person on Earth, lives on a rural farm in Belgium, and falls in love with his huge sow. After bonding with her in several strange ways, such as rolling in manure with her, he finally decides to culminate the relationship. After which, the sow gives birth to human/pig hybrids, whom the farmer immediately tries to bond with. He tries to feed them all, but they all try to leave to be with their mother. Jealous, the farmer hangs all of them. When she discovers that her children are dead, the sow runs away in grief and falls into a mud pit, where she drowns. The farmer begins to look for his love, and when he finds her, he becomes overcome in sadness. He drags the sow out of the hole and buries her back at the farm, and subsequently tries burying himself along with her. When this fails, he decides that his life is also over, and begins destroying every important aspect of his life, including the strange jars that he collects throughout the film. After his breakdown, he oddly begins making tea out of his feces and urine, which he consumes wholeheartedly, and immediately becomes sick. Finally, he hangs himself off a ladder, which is the last image of the film.
The film has a very incoherent plot structure, and is difficult to describe chronologically due to several strange and often random scenes interweaved into the overall story. Such displays consist of the farmer fastening doll heads to pigeons, cutting off the head of a chicken, and collecting strange materials in jars. A farmer, who may be the last person on Earth, lives on a rural farm in Belgium, and falls in love with his huge sow. After bonding with her in several strange ways, such as rolling in manure with her, he finally decides to culminate the relationship. After which, the sow gives birth to human/pig hybrids, whom the farmer immediately tries to bond with. He tries to feed them all, but they all try to leave to be with their mother. Jealous, the farmer hangs all of them. When she discovers that her children are dead, the sow runs away in grief and falls into a mud pit, where she drowns. The farmer begins to look for his love, and when he finds her, he becomes overcome in sadness. He drags the sow out of the hole and buries her back at the farm, and subsequently tries burying himself along with her. When this fails, he decides that his life is also over, and begins destroying every important aspect of his life, including the strange jars that he collects throughout the film. After his breakdown, he oddly begins making tea out of his feces and urine, which he consumes wholeheartedly, and immediately becomes sick. Finally, he hangs himself off a ladder, which is the last image of the film.
The art of bleak cinema
gunslinger86113 October 2010
Warning: Spoilers
I remember being 15 and discovering a website called video mayhem of Florida. I remember it was a vast oasis of wonderfully obscure and violent films,most of which i never dreamed i thought id'e see. To my luck i have though. One title in particular stood out to me as something i never in my wildest dreams thought id'e get a chance at.
The film was vase de noces,also known as The wedding trough,and the much cruder title The pig fornicating film. The basic story is of a lonely farmer who may or may not be the last man on earth,although i think the idea of the last man on earth is a much more disturbing plot point. Anyway through his loneliness and isolation he from s bond with a large sow pig. As the film progresses we see a bizarre courtship between man and animal culminating in a very graphic scene of bestiality. Strangely enough the sow becomes pregnant and gives birth to three little piglets in a graphic birthing scene. We watch as the farmer tries in vain to raise the quote unquote children but fails as they prefer there mother to him.
In a fit of desperation he hangs all the piglets. This being seen by the mother pig,she runs into a mud pit and drowns.To the farmers despair he hauls his beloved out of the pit and attempts to bury her with himself. Now in complete state of hopelessness he goes on a spree of eating both animal and human feces until he grows violently ill and hangs himself. The last image is of his swinging corpse.
Now before i actually watched this film i can not tell you how many negative reviews i read about this film. When i finally got down to watch it i was surprisingly entertained. The film plays out like tragedy. I was not so much disturbed by the content as i was by the themes of this film. At first glance one would pass this film off as nothing but zoophelic garbage passed of as an art film,and it would be hard to argue that.
however to quote shrek this film is like an onion,it has layers. And the deeper you go into this film the harder it is to take. Once you get past the ideas of bestiality you realise that there are themes of isolation,madness,loneliness,the trials frustrations of parenting,and even forbidden love to a strange extent.
I do not condone this film for the fact that the idea of platonic love between a man and an animal not only disturbs me but i also find it reprehensible. I can though and I'm not trying to sound contradictory understand the fact that the single true character in this film deals with true mental illness and one has to understand that in that state of mind one can be capable of some truly vile acts.
To me this film is a showcase of a directors demons and personal woes although i can not say if bestiality is his true focus. Maybe the aforementioned issues above...who knows. As a film vase de noces surpasses any art film i have seen with the exception of begotten. Really as an experiment more then anything, for that alone i give this film a higher then usual rating. However be warned this film is greatly troubling whether its the content or the themes you may not walk away from this film with the same outlook for a while.
The film was vase de noces,also known as The wedding trough,and the much cruder title The pig fornicating film. The basic story is of a lonely farmer who may or may not be the last man on earth,although i think the idea of the last man on earth is a much more disturbing plot point. Anyway through his loneliness and isolation he from s bond with a large sow pig. As the film progresses we see a bizarre courtship between man and animal culminating in a very graphic scene of bestiality. Strangely enough the sow becomes pregnant and gives birth to three little piglets in a graphic birthing scene. We watch as the farmer tries in vain to raise the quote unquote children but fails as they prefer there mother to him.
In a fit of desperation he hangs all the piglets. This being seen by the mother pig,she runs into a mud pit and drowns.To the farmers despair he hauls his beloved out of the pit and attempts to bury her with himself. Now in complete state of hopelessness he goes on a spree of eating both animal and human feces until he grows violently ill and hangs himself. The last image is of his swinging corpse.
Now before i actually watched this film i can not tell you how many negative reviews i read about this film. When i finally got down to watch it i was surprisingly entertained. The film plays out like tragedy. I was not so much disturbed by the content as i was by the themes of this film. At first glance one would pass this film off as nothing but zoophelic garbage passed of as an art film,and it would be hard to argue that.
however to quote shrek this film is like an onion,it has layers. And the deeper you go into this film the harder it is to take. Once you get past the ideas of bestiality you realise that there are themes of isolation,madness,loneliness,the trials frustrations of parenting,and even forbidden love to a strange extent.
I do not condone this film for the fact that the idea of platonic love between a man and an animal not only disturbs me but i also find it reprehensible. I can though and I'm not trying to sound contradictory understand the fact that the single true character in this film deals with true mental illness and one has to understand that in that state of mind one can be capable of some truly vile acts.
To me this film is a showcase of a directors demons and personal woes although i can not say if bestiality is his true focus. Maybe the aforementioned issues above...who knows. As a film vase de noces surpasses any art film i have seen with the exception of begotten. Really as an experiment more then anything, for that alone i give this film a higher then usual rating. However be warned this film is greatly troubling whether its the content or the themes you may not walk away from this film with the same outlook for a while.
What Do You Expect From Something Called THE PIG F!CKING FILM???
EVOL66627 June 2006
Warning: Spoilers
I'm gonna get to the point with this one. Many consider this film "shocking". I guess if you consider simulated pig-sex and sh!t eating "shocking" - then it is. Most consider it "disgusting" and "depraved" - no real argument there. Some say it's the "SICKEST FILM EVER MADE" - that statement I *would* dispute. Call it what ya will, VASE DE NOCES (aka WEDDING TROUGH aka THE PIG F!CKING FILM) is definitely strange - but I guess I'm one of the few that actually "saw" something in this film. It's no masterpiece by any stretch - but there's something about it that makes it "interesting"...
A guy who looks like Mr. Bean lives a solitary life on a small farm amidst the ruins of a large building. He co-habitates with chickens and turkeys, some birds, and...oh yes - his pig. Seems Bean has a fondness for his pig - as he spends much of the beginning of the film chasing after it in a "courting" manner. Eventually, Bean "mates" (ungraphically) with the pig and they produce offspring. Other reviewers said that they were mutant man/pig hybrids - they looked like normal pig-babies to me. Bean tries unsuccessfully to play the "good Daddy" role - and when the babies are unresponsive - he hangs them. The momma pig is distraught about this series of events and drowns herself in a mud-hole. This effectively ends any sort of "rational behavior" that Bean once had, and when he unsuccessfully tries to bury himself with his now deceased "bride" - he commits to eating his own crap before hanging himself...
I can't exactly put my finger on what I found "interesting" about this film - so I'll start with the down-sides: first off, the film is WWWAAAYYYY too long. There's lot's of boring stuff that could've been cut from it, shortened to about 30-minutes, and it would have been just as "effective". 90-minutes was just too much. The beastiality "angle" is obviously gonna bother some. There are scenes of dead hanging piglets and some chicken-head-cutting-offing that will no doubt inflame the PETA-crew. Now, to what I thought were the "positive" aspects. The film itself is done in such a way as to wonder what the backstory is on this chain of events. Who is Mr. Bean? Why is he living this strange, almost child-like solitary existence? None of this is ever actually explained, but the way his character is written, makes him seem more than just some pig-effing pervert - it's almost as though he knows no better. The sound-design and "score" are suitably strange and fit the mood of the film perfectly. I think that there are some underlying "themes" of the film, regarding jealousy, nurturing, possibly mental-illness, etc...that although unresolved by the end of the film, are brought up and exposed - or maybe I'm just grasping and the film is really just about a pig-effing pervert. Regardless, I can't say that I "enjoyed" the film, but again - I did find it "interesting". I would suggest a look to those that dig subversive, uber-weirdo, experimental/art-house type films. Most people trash this film (and are justified in doing so...) but I guess for me it's a situation of one-man's-trash-being-another-man's-WEDDING-TROUGH...8/10
A guy who looks like Mr. Bean lives a solitary life on a small farm amidst the ruins of a large building. He co-habitates with chickens and turkeys, some birds, and...oh yes - his pig. Seems Bean has a fondness for his pig - as he spends much of the beginning of the film chasing after it in a "courting" manner. Eventually, Bean "mates" (ungraphically) with the pig and they produce offspring. Other reviewers said that they were mutant man/pig hybrids - they looked like normal pig-babies to me. Bean tries unsuccessfully to play the "good Daddy" role - and when the babies are unresponsive - he hangs them. The momma pig is distraught about this series of events and drowns herself in a mud-hole. This effectively ends any sort of "rational behavior" that Bean once had, and when he unsuccessfully tries to bury himself with his now deceased "bride" - he commits to eating his own crap before hanging himself...
I can't exactly put my finger on what I found "interesting" about this film - so I'll start with the down-sides: first off, the film is WWWAAAYYYY too long. There's lot's of boring stuff that could've been cut from it, shortened to about 30-minutes, and it would have been just as "effective". 90-minutes was just too much. The beastiality "angle" is obviously gonna bother some. There are scenes of dead hanging piglets and some chicken-head-cutting-offing that will no doubt inflame the PETA-crew. Now, to what I thought were the "positive" aspects. The film itself is done in such a way as to wonder what the backstory is on this chain of events. Who is Mr. Bean? Why is he living this strange, almost child-like solitary existence? None of this is ever actually explained, but the way his character is written, makes him seem more than just some pig-effing pervert - it's almost as though he knows no better. The sound-design and "score" are suitably strange and fit the mood of the film perfectly. I think that there are some underlying "themes" of the film, regarding jealousy, nurturing, possibly mental-illness, etc...that although unresolved by the end of the film, are brought up and exposed - or maybe I'm just grasping and the film is really just about a pig-effing pervert. Regardless, I can't say that I "enjoyed" the film, but again - I did find it "interesting". I would suggest a look to those that dig subversive, uber-weirdo, experimental/art-house type films. Most people trash this film (and are justified in doing so...) but I guess for me it's a situation of one-man's-trash-being-another-man's-WEDDING-TROUGH...8/10
Intense "Vases De Noces" gives a disturbing look at the end of man's survival
fudgepax2612 February 2007
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.
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.
Tragic.
DarkSpotOn20 May 2022
I heard of this movie a while ago. Honestly, this movie is insane, this is a test of how much you can survive insanity. I think the message of this film is there, however it's really poorly executed. This film is as if EreaserHead and Begotten somehow merged together. The point of this movie is to show what would happen if a human, lives without society, without people around him, no parents, no siblings, no friends, nobody. It graphically presents how a man goes insane after being all alone, not having anybody, and not having a purpose in life. The man goes completely insane, and because he can not find, a female partner, or a friend really, as he is living all alone inside of a church, he goes and does his deed with an animal. The animal gives birth, and the man tries to befriend his "children" in a way. However, the babies were trying to be with their biological mother, all the time, which upset him, so he executed all of them, which led to the mother taking her of own life. Later the movie just goes full stop and presents the man just having pleasure tasting his own self, and ultimately killing himself, which you see coming up away ahead of time, just like the breeding scene.
Most people say that the man is low intelligent, I think it's more of a raising problem, it does not seem that the man has any family, instead, animals raised him, which does not mean that the man was low intelligent. I think this is a very weird and bizarre movie, that could have been way better if the story was more engaging if we knew more about the man, and if half of the scenes in this movie were cut. This film could of been way shorter, than its original run-time of one hour, and 18 minutes. I was extremely bored during the movie because you just do not care about our main character.. He is totally out of the field and nearly serves no purpose. I'm glad this thing at least had some kind of a plot, not like Begotten, which managed to be worst than this, not disturbing-wise, but movie-wise. I'm curious what is the main actor of this movie doing today, imagine being the only actor in this filth. I did not find this film disturbing, or sick, it was more just bizarre, pointless, and ultimately very boring, without anything to drive it forward, instead we end up with a movie that is just shock for the sake of being shocking, without any story, or build up or anything.
I'm disappointed.
Most people say that the man is low intelligent, I think it's more of a raising problem, it does not seem that the man has any family, instead, animals raised him, which does not mean that the man was low intelligent. I think this is a very weird and bizarre movie, that could have been way better if the story was more engaging if we knew more about the man, and if half of the scenes in this movie were cut. This film could of been way shorter, than its original run-time of one hour, and 18 minutes. I was extremely bored during the movie because you just do not care about our main character.. He is totally out of the field and nearly serves no purpose. I'm glad this thing at least had some kind of a plot, not like Begotten, which managed to be worst than this, not disturbing-wise, but movie-wise. I'm curious what is the main actor of this movie doing today, imagine being the only actor in this filth. I did not find this film disturbing, or sick, it was more just bizarre, pointless, and ultimately very boring, without anything to drive it forward, instead we end up with a movie that is just shock for the sake of being shocking, without any story, or build up or anything.
I'm disappointed.
Truly sick and repellent Belgian art-house zoophilia film.
HumanoidOfFlesh5 June 2005
A farmer(Dominique Garny)who may be the last man on earth,loves and makes love to a huge sow-pig.When the sow gives birth,he takes the piglets from her to keep her from eating them,and knits cute little infant things for them.When the piglets abandon him for their mother,he executes them by hanging,and the sow shows the first distress she has shown for the whole film."Wedding Trough",more commonly known as "The Pig Fu*king Movie" is certainly one of the sickest films ever made.It's loaded with scenes of implied bestiality,coprophagia and insanity,so fans of unrelentingly grim,experimental transgressions will be satisfied.The action is set on a secluded rural farm and the film is completely devoid of dialogue.Still despite its truly repellent subject matter the action is slow,but the scenes of the farmer sodomizing his swine or eating his own excrement are sick as hell.Give it a look,only if you are into extreme cinema.8 out of 10.
A vile, depressing experience
lhommeinsipide28 August 2007
Warning: Spoilers
I have nonetheless given this piece an 8, if only to raise its profile. Many have compared this to Lynch's feature-length debut Eraserhead (which Vase De Noces predates by three years). Although I see some similarities - how males deal with childbirth, the heaving black and white cinematography, the eclectic soundtrack - I am loath to compare the two myself. Whereas Eraserhead is renowned for being the archetypal "midnight movie", it is umpteen times more accessible than Vase De Noces.
What drove me to watch this film? As with everyone else, curiosity. I had heard about the infamous moments in the film and thought that nobody would dare commit them to celluloid. When Wikipedia advertised it as a "lost film", a trigger flipped in my head and I had to find it. That the only copy available is a shaky nth-generation VHS lends the film the appropriate integrity for its infamy. While even the original may have been tough to sit through, the constant crackling and pitch-bending of the soundtrack makes it infinitely harder to watch, and the picture quality is so inconsistent that it can take a minute to work out what is being shown on screen (of course, once you have worked it out, you'll wish you hadn't).
On to the "plot". A Belgian farmer falls for a sow and engages in several sex acts with her. As a result, she falls pregnant and bears a litter of pig-children (supposedly mutants - it isn't instantly clear). When the pig-children favour their mother for affection, the farmer is devastated and hangs them all. The sow, on discovering this, drowns herself in mud. Remorseful, the farmer hangs himself, feeling he has nothing to live for. The end. No, really.
Many suggest that this is set in the future and that our protagonist is the last remaining human on Earth. While this could be true, I personally believe that it is a timeless piece, with very little to imply the time period (when were jars invented?). What matters is that this man is incredibly isolated and is, perhaps as a result, chronically depressed (this may explain his romance with the pig, and the coprophagia). Throughout the film, we see clips of him forcing dolls' heads on pigeons and arranging various foul substances in jars, maybe to pass the time, maybe as an obsessive mania, nothing is for certain. What is certain is that this man is a sad case (the actor too if some of the more unsavoury moments are played out for real), and we as viewers have a disturbing experience intruding on his life. In conclusion, this is a thoroughly difficult film to watch and, although I have a weakness for such experiences, you will need a strong stomach and a lot of patience. In no way is this film rewarding or enjoyable; nonetheless it stays with you and I will defend it on the basis that it is not exclusively exploitative and that there will never have to be another film like it.
What drove me to watch this film? As with everyone else, curiosity. I had heard about the infamous moments in the film and thought that nobody would dare commit them to celluloid. When Wikipedia advertised it as a "lost film", a trigger flipped in my head and I had to find it. That the only copy available is a shaky nth-generation VHS lends the film the appropriate integrity for its infamy. While even the original may have been tough to sit through, the constant crackling and pitch-bending of the soundtrack makes it infinitely harder to watch, and the picture quality is so inconsistent that it can take a minute to work out what is being shown on screen (of course, once you have worked it out, you'll wish you hadn't).
On to the "plot". A Belgian farmer falls for a sow and engages in several sex acts with her. As a result, she falls pregnant and bears a litter of pig-children (supposedly mutants - it isn't instantly clear). When the pig-children favour their mother for affection, the farmer is devastated and hangs them all. The sow, on discovering this, drowns herself in mud. Remorseful, the farmer hangs himself, feeling he has nothing to live for. The end. No, really.
Many suggest that this is set in the future and that our protagonist is the last remaining human on Earth. While this could be true, I personally believe that it is a timeless piece, with very little to imply the time period (when were jars invented?). What matters is that this man is incredibly isolated and is, perhaps as a result, chronically depressed (this may explain his romance with the pig, and the coprophagia). Throughout the film, we see clips of him forcing dolls' heads on pigeons and arranging various foul substances in jars, maybe to pass the time, maybe as an obsessive mania, nothing is for certain. What is certain is that this man is a sad case (the actor too if some of the more unsavoury moments are played out for real), and we as viewers have a disturbing experience intruding on his life. In conclusion, this is a thoroughly difficult film to watch and, although I have a weakness for such experiences, you will need a strong stomach and a lot of patience. In no way is this film rewarding or enjoyable; nonetheless it stays with you and I will defend it on the basis that it is not exclusively exploitative and that there will never have to be another film like it.
sick and twisted
nekroman6 June 2004
Consider me a fan of the more fringe and extreme movies in circulation. I guess it's more of a curiosity factor than a genuine fondness for the grotesque. That very curiosity is what lead me to watch this movie. I'll say right off that there is almost nobody that would find this "enjoyable" and anybody that does needs to be locked up. But it is definitely a movie that lives up to its reputation. There's no spoken language and the picture is shoddy black and white. The only soundtrack consists of everyday farm noises and organ music that sounds like Ned from South Park singing while drowning in a tub of grease. Yes, it's that weird. Then we get to the actual "plot". A lone farmer with a bestiality fetish rapes a sow on his farm only to confront the offspring, his emotions about the sow, and a horribly disgusting habit of drinking tea made from his own sewage! No reasons are ever given to the man's motives and nothing is ever explained. For example why does this guy enjoy putting doll heads on pigeons? But as far as the sicko movies goes it deserves a high spot. If you watched Salo: 120 Days of Sodom and shook it right off this may be your next conquest although for the life of me I don't know why anybody would purposefully seek this out. Then again I did so nevermind.
The Mystery of Alchemy
talastra6 November 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Many of the reviews for this film are misleadingly similar, and seem to be copying one another while leaving out key details.
** SPOILERS ** PLOT: A young man living entirely by himself in an abandoned church or monastery courts his pig, breeds with her, and then tries to care for the piglets. When they prove unruly at mealtime, he hangs them. The mother goes mad and drowns. In grief, the man buries himself alive with her, has a vision of himself, then returns to the monastery, where he seems to atone by eating nettles, and then eats and drinks his own waste. Finally, he hangs himself and seems to float in the air like a kite after his death.
And yes, as one person says, there is bestiality and feces-eating--"it's called the pig-f*cking movie,"don't act astonished. :p If you want the director's opinion, here is his description, more or less: "A solitary man lives in an abandoned farm. Its territory: ground, water, air and fire. He loves a sow tenderly. Three piglets are born from their union. Family knittings, feeding-bottles and meals will have only a time. Death grinds: the sow commits suicide and the alchemist is made crucible." PROBLEMS WITH THESE DESCRIPTIONS: The young man is not necessarily a farmer. He's the only human, he has to get food somehow, but we never see any crops. Moreover, while the director describes the setting as an abandoned farm, it is clearly a monastery, abandoned church, or school, considering that the man regularly rings the bell. (So does the pig once.) This is one of the more intriguing gestures in the film--who is he trying to summon with the bell, or what memory is he replaying? A note: there has always been that bourgeois "disgust" with the goings-ons at places like farms, such as slaughtering chickens, boinking animals, the mere presence of manure, the violence and open sexuality of animals (birds in this case), the "grotesqueness" of actual birth, and the general "muckiness" of life. Criticizing the film for depicting these realities (of life itself) is as gratuitous as the film is said to be.
More errors: the IMDb database says it is a continuity error that the man goes into the pig's grave with clothes on and emerges naked. This is clearly intentional on the director's part, as the man undergoes some kind of rebirth.
It's also seems inadequate to describe the whole of the man's existence as "insane". He may be separated from people, but he is not alone. He doesn't even only have one choice of mate (there are female chickens and turkeys). The director states the alchemist becomes crucible after the sow's death—not even that has to be madness.
This isn't to say I get all of the symbolism. It's unclear to me why he keeps a record of everything he kills in his glass jars (a record of death?), but it's clear that he gives that up for his final experiment, which is about transformation (the whistling teapot is the total synthesis of this symbol: air, water, fire, and "dirt" i.e., feces), overcoming death. That he eats the alchemical mess he makes is automatic. Eating is an ancient symbol for the alchemical process (it may even be the basis). He's seeking immortality, hence the celestial chorus music (not simply as a perverse counterpart to the action).
Whether his experiment is successful is ambiguous. Does his vomiting indicate a rejection of the project, and so he hangs himself in despair (why does no one mention the very last, distant shot when he seems to be rising like a kite, higher and higher, as he swings), or is this a success, and he is simply being transported to another plane as it were? Maybe the earthy aspects of the film prevent you from bothering with this, but that doesn't mean the film does.
With art films, the first image can often be very telling--maybe even the initial image that inspired the director. With Vase de Noces, we see the man's attempt to unite the human and avian, just as he later attempts to unite the human and porcine. The birds fly away, while the piglets show no such transcendence--so maybe that is why he kills them (or because death, as transformation, is fundamental to alchemy).
No one talks about the birds in the film, but it is interesting to notice that the chickens are especially cruel, the turkeys are sexual and engage in what looks (or at least sounds) like a gang rape, and the ducks merely look on curiously, being neither cruel nor sexual. Maybe the man can't breed with them because they're avians (or, in the context of the film, can't fly). In any case, we are presented initial with an image of the unification of man and animal, which ends with him floating in the air like his bird-like (i.e., tethered kite), rising higher and higher.
Make what you will about all of this, the movie's not just about sex with pigs and gobbling waste. If nothing else, the man may want transcendence from his condition (by extension, our condition) just as badly as you wish he'd transcend (i.e., leave) it.
Lastly, I suggest if you find this movie boring, it's because you know there are scenes of pig-boinking and feces eating, and your impatience for the movie to get to that drives your sense of boredom with the rest of what is going on. That's not a good way to watch this movie. If gratuitous sensationalism is what you want to experience so you can brag to friends about how "out there" you are about movies, go watch something else.
** SPOILERS ** PLOT: A young man living entirely by himself in an abandoned church or monastery courts his pig, breeds with her, and then tries to care for the piglets. When they prove unruly at mealtime, he hangs them. The mother goes mad and drowns. In grief, the man buries himself alive with her, has a vision of himself, then returns to the monastery, where he seems to atone by eating nettles, and then eats and drinks his own waste. Finally, he hangs himself and seems to float in the air like a kite after his death.
And yes, as one person says, there is bestiality and feces-eating--"it's called the pig-f*cking movie,"don't act astonished. :p If you want the director's opinion, here is his description, more or less: "A solitary man lives in an abandoned farm. Its territory: ground, water, air and fire. He loves a sow tenderly. Three piglets are born from their union. Family knittings, feeding-bottles and meals will have only a time. Death grinds: the sow commits suicide and the alchemist is made crucible." PROBLEMS WITH THESE DESCRIPTIONS: The young man is not necessarily a farmer. He's the only human, he has to get food somehow, but we never see any crops. Moreover, while the director describes the setting as an abandoned farm, it is clearly a monastery, abandoned church, or school, considering that the man regularly rings the bell. (So does the pig once.) This is one of the more intriguing gestures in the film--who is he trying to summon with the bell, or what memory is he replaying? A note: there has always been that bourgeois "disgust" with the goings-ons at places like farms, such as slaughtering chickens, boinking animals, the mere presence of manure, the violence and open sexuality of animals (birds in this case), the "grotesqueness" of actual birth, and the general "muckiness" of life. Criticizing the film for depicting these realities (of life itself) is as gratuitous as the film is said to be.
More errors: the IMDb database says it is a continuity error that the man goes into the pig's grave with clothes on and emerges naked. This is clearly intentional on the director's part, as the man undergoes some kind of rebirth.
It's also seems inadequate to describe the whole of the man's existence as "insane". He may be separated from people, but he is not alone. He doesn't even only have one choice of mate (there are female chickens and turkeys). The director states the alchemist becomes crucible after the sow's death—not even that has to be madness.
This isn't to say I get all of the symbolism. It's unclear to me why he keeps a record of everything he kills in his glass jars (a record of death?), but it's clear that he gives that up for his final experiment, which is about transformation (the whistling teapot is the total synthesis of this symbol: air, water, fire, and "dirt" i.e., feces), overcoming death. That he eats the alchemical mess he makes is automatic. Eating is an ancient symbol for the alchemical process (it may even be the basis). He's seeking immortality, hence the celestial chorus music (not simply as a perverse counterpart to the action).
Whether his experiment is successful is ambiguous. Does his vomiting indicate a rejection of the project, and so he hangs himself in despair (why does no one mention the very last, distant shot when he seems to be rising like a kite, higher and higher, as he swings), or is this a success, and he is simply being transported to another plane as it were? Maybe the earthy aspects of the film prevent you from bothering with this, but that doesn't mean the film does.
With art films, the first image can often be very telling--maybe even the initial image that inspired the director. With Vase de Noces, we see the man's attempt to unite the human and avian, just as he later attempts to unite the human and porcine. The birds fly away, while the piglets show no such transcendence--so maybe that is why he kills them (or because death, as transformation, is fundamental to alchemy).
No one talks about the birds in the film, but it is interesting to notice that the chickens are especially cruel, the turkeys are sexual and engage in what looks (or at least sounds) like a gang rape, and the ducks merely look on curiously, being neither cruel nor sexual. Maybe the man can't breed with them because they're avians (or, in the context of the film, can't fly). In any case, we are presented initial with an image of the unification of man and animal, which ends with him floating in the air like his bird-like (i.e., tethered kite), rising higher and higher.
Make what you will about all of this, the movie's not just about sex with pigs and gobbling waste. If nothing else, the man may want transcendence from his condition (by extension, our condition) just as badly as you wish he'd transcend (i.e., leave) it.
Lastly, I suggest if you find this movie boring, it's because you know there are scenes of pig-boinking and feces eating, and your impatience for the movie to get to that drives your sense of boredom with the rest of what is going on. That's not a good way to watch this movie. If gratuitous sensationalism is what you want to experience so you can brag to friends about how "out there" you are about movies, go watch something else.
Depraved entertainment. Don't' call it "art".
insomniac_rod9 June 2006
HUGE SPOILERS
Obscure! sick! depraved! I dug it. I didn't enjoy most of the movie's scenes. Believe me, watching a man penetrating a pig isn't something nice to watch. Also, it's not a pleasure to watch a man eating his own excrement. What I liked about the movie is the obscure character development of "the man". I wonder what kind of mental disease or sickness this man had. He found sexual pleasure with animals but also generated love feelings towards animals. He even decides to have his own family with the pig and later kills them all... Poor little pigs. So the director tried to have a love story but only shows how humans can also be demented.
The movie surely is disturbing because of it's grotesque scenes and sounds but it isn't something that will sincerely shock you. If you don't watch it objectively, you might consider it as a piece of crap. I could only recommend this movie for people who are into psychology and weird fixations.
This is classified as an art movie but in my opinion is just a poor excuse of shocking film making. This movie seems to have vanished from earth.
Obscure! sick! depraved! I dug it. I didn't enjoy most of the movie's scenes. Believe me, watching a man penetrating a pig isn't something nice to watch. Also, it's not a pleasure to watch a man eating his own excrement. What I liked about the movie is the obscure character development of "the man". I wonder what kind of mental disease or sickness this man had. He found sexual pleasure with animals but also generated love feelings towards animals. He even decides to have his own family with the pig and later kills them all... Poor little pigs. So the director tried to have a love story but only shows how humans can also be demented.
The movie surely is disturbing because of it's grotesque scenes and sounds but it isn't something that will sincerely shock you. If you don't watch it objectively, you might consider it as a piece of crap. I could only recommend this movie for people who are into psychology and weird fixations.
This is classified as an art movie but in my opinion is just a poor excuse of shocking film making. This movie seems to have vanished from earth.
nearly a masterpiece
jagerhans3 January 2008
"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.
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.
A shocker with a shocking soundtrack.
charleswbrown16 March 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Be warned this film does feature excrement eating, sex with animals, oh and a chicken has its head cut off. But it's all done with style. The film features a man that has sex with a pig, and this results in the pig having human/pig hybrids. The piglets love their mother more than him so he kills them by hanging them and the mother then kills herself. He them buries himself alive with her but resurrects himself, this leads on the excrement eating to which he becomes violently ill due to and the film ends on the actors hanging himself from a very high ladder, oddly enough. I have met and attended a screen talk with Thierry Zeno, the director and he is a very laid back and proud director. The film did shock/disturb me but it wasn't the on-screen imagery which did this, it was the surreal and odd soundtrack which is just brilliant.
I can't imagine this film will ever be shown on Broadcast TV or the cinema again so try and buy it!
I can't imagine this film will ever be shown on Broadcast TV or the cinema again so try and buy it!
Homophobia in the Closet
mrdonleone18 December 2009
this movie is a perfect example of how a work of art can be misunderstood. when I read all the comments about 'Vase de noces', I was shocked. how can something so beautiful as this movie be misinterpreted? because that's all it is: interpretations. this movie is, because it has got no dialog, one big interpretation. so let's give mine by repeating it's only my interpretation: this movie is about homophobia, even though I only understood its message at the end of the picture. everything became clear to me: obviously, the protagonist is a farmer boy with mental problems, probably caused by something like, perhaps, childhood terrorism, it isn't mentioned in the movie (no dialog, remember?), but it's clear to say this teenage boy has got real problems. because he lives all alone in a farm with his animals, nobody helps him to fur fill his needs. and he has got some weird needs, but only (I interpret) because he lives alone, he's homosexual and no man in around (and no woman either) to help him get off his sexual desires. luckily for the poor kid, there are his animals. they help him go on with his life, by giving free sexual encounters and giving him the possibility to kill whenever he's upset. please, do not forget, I do not give away anything about this movie, there are shocks with thousands in this one I won't tell a thing about. but what I found so interesting, is that the boy has got some issues, he's a bit like the Amon Goeth character in 'Schindler's List', very interesting. he hurts himself, he loves himself, he wants to do good, he fails by being the opposite. how will this character study develop? to know this, you must see this art house movie, pure genius. and the thing about it all, is its hidden message, which I thought was that we must stop hating homosexuals and welcome them in society to avoid situations like the one portrayed in 'Vase de noces', one of the best films I've ever seen.
Where do I start?
katzykat20 April 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Disturbing, beautiful, and weird. I read about this movie on a website at first and thought "A man boinking his pig? That sounds retarded." But then....I found out it was ridiculously hard to attain and I had to watch it, and I got a good copy so I was able to see everything clearly. This is both a blessing and a curse. The pig boinking scenes are, eh, well clearly he's really enjoying it and as much as I wanted to stop watching it, I couldn't, it's like a car wreck. Although, I think the scene where he's naked chasing the pig around that pen is even more disturbing-he's like a hunter going after his prey. He WANTS his pig. I feel like it was about to be a rape scene. Also He's got obsessions. He obsessively saves things in jars, pretty much saving everything he finds. I think when he's placing the jars on the shelf and they keep falling off is a metaphor to what's happening to him, he is losing control, cracking, and can't keep everything in place. He also acts obsessive with the piglets, who by the way don't look mutant, they look like cute little piglets and there are 2 funny scenes with them when he tries to cloth the piglets and they don't want to wear the clothes. Then that scene at the table where they won't eat from their dishes, so cute. But it demonstrates how obsessive he is. Some have mentioned that he is autistic, and I would agree that he is. (Also, what is THAT with the doll heads and the birds? Like he's trying to create a mutant creature, but it isn't working). And while all of this way creepy/icky/disturbing, the truly disturbing thing to me is the loneliness he had to experience as a result of his environment. The whole movie is void of talking, just the sounds of the animals and the music. Although there are a lot of slow scenes in this movie I think they help convey the emptiness of his days, the loneliness being surrounded by nothing but animals, and the mundane ordinariness of it all. Then the piglets come along, he dives into taking care of them. That made me sad too, the way he was so excited about his piglets because that is the only exciting and good thing happening in his life. So then he kills them. Then his lover kills herself. Then he eats his own crap and kills himself. The sound of the pig screaming while running away was blood curdling and made me sad. So, why would I like it? Im not sure, but I did. It was tragic and you really felt for this guy despite his "habits" because while watching him I really felt he did not know any better. What's more, I found myself wanting to know his past, where did he come from? How did he end up here and why? Also, the music was weird but fitting. I think it will forever be stuck in my head. This was the most disturbing film I've seen.
hierry Zéno's transgressive peon to forbidden love is an earthy little film with a very pig heart!
Weirdling_Wolf26 April 2021
No greater love hath any man experienced than this distempered farmer's primal passion for his porcine, deliciously pink-snouted, mud-caked paramour! A crackling allegorical yarn giving even the most jaded film fan much in the way of flavoursome food for thought, perhaps somewhat saltily suggesting that to genuinely experience true love one must first dispense with all boundaries, since this bestially besotted farmer's overwhelming desire for his pleasingly plump, barnyard groomed, finely bestubbled mistress simply won't be fenced in!
Does this ferociously fragrant film posit the ideologically sound idea that instead of so callously leading these coquettish beasts to the slaughter we might just as easily lead them lovingly towards a generously laden 'Wedding Trough'? While love can frequently be all consuming, should we really be consuming everything that so hungrily catches our eye? Like the finest vintage swine this artful film certainly gets riper with age, and there is little snout in my mind that Thierry Zéno's transgressive peon to forbidden love is an earthy little film with a very pig heart! 'Vase De Noces' has many extraordinarily idiosyncratic images that swill never be forgotten!
Does this ferociously fragrant film posit the ideologically sound idea that instead of so callously leading these coquettish beasts to the slaughter we might just as easily lead them lovingly towards a generously laden 'Wedding Trough'? While love can frequently be all consuming, should we really be consuming everything that so hungrily catches our eye? Like the finest vintage swine this artful film certainly gets riper with age, and there is little snout in my mind that Thierry Zéno's transgressive peon to forbidden love is an earthy little film with a very pig heart! 'Vase De Noces' has many extraordinarily idiosyncratic images that swill never be forgotten!
Like a nightmare.
ocosis1 November 2021
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