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 Post subject: Vase de noces / The Wedding Trough (Thierry Zéno, 1974)
PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2009 2:09 pm 
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Directed by Thierry Zeno, this no-dialogue, one-actor, black and white film is of some notoriety - banned in Australia and (if memory serves) UK customs tried to prevent its entering the country for a film festival showing in the 1970s. Has anyone seen it?

It's now available on DVD in Sweden, under the title Svinet.


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 Post subject: Re: Vase de noces (The Wedding Trough)
PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2009 2:17 pm 
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Isn't this the Pig Fucking Movie?


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 Post subject: Re: Vase de noces / The Wedding Trough (Thierry Zéno, 1974)
PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 4:33 am 
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Yes, it's the Pig Fucking Movie.

A DVD will be available from Germany, too. A long Interview (72Min.) with the director will be a bonus. I'll post again as soon as I know where you can buy it the cheapest, if you have to ship it to a location outside of Germany.


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 Post subject: Re: Vase de noces / The Wedding Trough (Thierry Zéno, 1974)
PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 9:52 am 
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Germany DVD:

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 Post subject: Re: Vase de noces / The Wedding Trough (Thierry Zéno, 1974)
PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 10:13 am 
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That looks like a good set there. And it's going to be easier to get past Customs than a grey market jewel case saying 'The Pig Fucking Movie'.


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 Post subject: Re: Vase de noces / The Wedding Trough (Thierry Zéno, 1974)
PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 2:38 pm 
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So is it really 79 minutes of pig-fucking or 76 minutes of foreplay?


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 Post subject: Re: Vase de noces / The Wedding Trough (Thierry Zéno, 1974)
PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 4:43 pm 
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they really did go all out for a this film.


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 Post subject: Re: Vase de noces / The Wedding Trough (Thierry Zéno, 1974)
PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 6:33 pm 
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Is the pig a man or a woman? :o


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 Post subject: Re: Vase de noces / The Wedding Trough (Thierry Zéno, 1974)
PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:53 pm 
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The pig is female. Which is how it can
[Reveal] Spoiler:
give birth to human-pig piglettes

afterwards (seriously, this is what happens).

It really isn't a movie about pig fucking, though for SOME strange reason that's what sticks in people's head :roll: There's a lot more to it, and I'm glad that this set seems to be putting it into a context beyond the pig fucking metaphor.


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 Post subject: Re: Vase de noces / The Wedding Trough (Thierry Zéno, 1974)
PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 11:38 pm 
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RodneyOz wrote:
The pig is female. Which is how it can
[Reveal] Spoiler:
give birth to mutant human-pig hybrid piglettes

afterwards (seriously, this is what happens).

:shock: This just jumped up to my must-watch list, although sitting through a guy sexing up a pig may be too much for even me.


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 Post subject: Re: Vase de noces / The Wedding Trough (Thierry Zéno, 1974)
PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 6:21 am 
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I have never seen it, but had the opportunity to read the texts in the booklet and the subtitles for the interview. The movie seems to be a very bleak vision of an existence reduced to the most basic needs and rituals. While reading the texts I always had Cipri i Maresco in mind and am looking forward to prove if the movie really holds up to this high expectation.


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 Post subject: Re: Vase de noces / The Wedding Trough (Thierry Zéno, 1974)
PostPosted: Fri May 29, 2009 9:34 am 
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golgothicon wrote:
I'll post again as soon as I know where you can buy it the cheapest, if you have to ship it to a location outside of Germany.

This information (shipping to the US) would be much appreciated, if you have a chance.


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 Post subject: Re: Vase de noces / The Wedding Trough (Thierry Zéno, 1974)
PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:26 pm 
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I posted some screencaps in the designated thread.
Some short notes to de-mystify this film:
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The "pig fucking" takes ca. 1min and 10sec, the newborns look like normal pigs.
The Film is mainly about strange rituals in the life of a strange person, and not about sodomy.


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 Post subject: Re: Vase de noces / The Wedding Trough (Thierry Zéno, 1974)
PostPosted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 5:18 am 

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Regarding this movie Rituals is the key words together with taboo.

It's an exploration of human taboo conducted in a way that is at the same time lyrical, literal and metaphorical.

Pasolini comes to mind. Teorema, Porcile and Medea especially.

Thierry Zeno is ananthropologist with a camera.

All his films are really challenging. unfortunately the fucking pig reference is what sticks in people mind.

I would really like to be able again to watch his beautiful (yet disturbing) film Les Morts about inhumation and burial rituals all over the world.


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