Le Cochon (1970)
- Directed by
- Jean Eustache
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 53 min
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary records the old-fashioned slaughter of a pig in a French village. It shows the process from start to finish in a plain and direct way.
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What happens
Le Cochon ("The Pig") is a fifty-minute featurette co-directed by Jean Eustache and Jean-Michel Barjol in 1970. Shot in a cinema verité style, it documents the traditional killing of a plump pig in a French rural village. Eustache had directed his first version of La Rosiere de Pessac (surrounding another annual tradition in his home village) in much the same unobtrusive style two years previously. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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