Decades on from its release, and featuring an all-star cast that includes Jean-Pierre Léaud, Anne Wiazemsky, Franco Citti, Pierre Clémenti, and Marco Ferreri, Pigsty [Porcile] remains one of Pier Paolo Pasolini's most controversial and wilfully provocative works - a deranged parody of cinema as revolutionary act.
It comprises parallel stories: (1) Clémenti and Citti as cannibalistic savages who rampage a world outside of any distinct time or place, and who push against the boundaries of human morality; (2) Godard-regulars Léaud and Wiazemsky as a romantically engaged couple in a contemporary Germany painted as a morass of industrialisation, fascist impulse, and bestial instincts.
Rivalled only by the director's Salò in its obsession with the politics of bourgeois degradation, Pigsty continues to challenge and enlarge the notions of what makes for "a political film" and what is meant by "a Pasolini film". The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the nightmarish Pigsty in a special DVD edition from a new HD master.
SPECIAL DVD EDITION:
- New high-definition transfer in the film s original aspect ratio
- Original Italian theatrical trailer
- Newly translated optional English subtitles
- 20-PAGE BOOKLET featuring a new essay on the film by critic and scholar Pasquale Iannone; a 1969 note on the film by Pasolini circulated at the Venice première; an extract from a 1969 interview by Gian Piero Brunetta with Pasolini; and rare archival imagery
Filmul nu are subtitrare in limba romana. / This movie does not have Romanian subtitles.