Pigsty (1969)

Original title

Porcile

Directed by

Sergio Citti, Pier Paolo Pasolini

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

VM18

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 165 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two parallel stories show acts of rebellion and transgression. One follows a man who abandons society to live in a pigsty, and the other involves a former Nazi hiding in plain sight. The film critiques fascism, consumerism, and moral decay in postwar Europe.

allegoricalprovocativebleakcerebralunsettlingslow-burnpoliticaltransgressive

What happens

Pigsty (Italian: Porcile) is a 1969 Italian film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marco Ferreri, Ugo Tognazzi, Pierre Clémenti, Alberto Lionello, Franco Citti and Anne Wiazemsky. The Criterion Collection's website states "Provocateur Pier Paolo Pasolini is at his most incendiary in this double-edged allegory on fascism, consumerism, and resistance. .... these stories of transgression form a scathing commentary on postwar European moral rot and the meaning of rebellion in the face of a corrupt world." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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