“Cathy Yan’s delightful, spiky, comic debut…an antidote to China’s weightier
arthouse output, settling the stomach after too much stolid social realism,
effervescent as an alka-seltzer”
— Jessica Kiang, Variety
“A unique and idiosyncratic work which serves to put an exciting filmmaker
firmly on the map”
— Tom Beasley, Flickering Myth
“A bold social satire that never loses its sense of fun, Dead Pigs finally
lets us confirm what Birds Of Prey already suggested: Cathy Yan
has a sharp eye and a fearless voice — we’re lucky to have her.”
— Ella Kemp, Empire Magazine
BEFORE BIRDS OF PREY, DIRECTOR CATHY YAN REVEALED
HER VISIONARY TALENTS WITH HER FEATURE FILM DEBUT,
A MASTERFUL SOCIAL SATIRE SET IN SHANGHAI
AND BASED ON REMARKABLE TRUE EVENTS
DEAD PIGS
Street Date: September 14, 2021
DVD: $24.95
A Sundance Award Winner for Ensemble Acting, the DVD
Also Includes the Bonus Short Film “Limitation of Life” by Renkai Tan
SYNOPSIS
DEAD PIGS is a bitingly humorous social satire about the trials and tribulations connecting a disparate group of characters in the midst of a baffling nationwide mystery. Shifting between Shanghai and the neighboring provincial town of Jiaxing, the film centers on the intersecting stories of five characters, whose loose connections begin to fatefully intertwine: a down-on-his-luck pig farmer; a feisty home-owner defending her property; a lovestruck busboy; a rudderless rich girl; and an American expat pursuing the Chinese Dream. Their fates converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs are found floating down the Huangpu River.
A universal human story set against the backdrop of globalization, drastic social change and increasing wealth inequality, DEAD PIGS stars an international ensemble recognized at Sundance with the Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting, including Vivian Wu (Away, The Last Emperor, The Joy Luck Club), Mason Lee (Lucy, The Hangover Pt II), Zazie Beetz (“Atlanta”, Nine Days), Meng Li (The Bad Kids, The Guillotines, Young Love Lost), Haoyu Yang (The Wandering Earth) and David Rysdahl (The Family, Nine Days). It was executive Produced by Jia Zhangke (Still Life) and Ali Wong (Always Be My Maybe).
BONUS FEATURE
- Bonus Short Film — Limitation of Life (Directed by Renkai Tan | United States / China | English and Chinese with English subtitles | 13 minutes) –This beautiful homage to lush 1950s melodramas subverts the genre by focusing on a family of Chinese immigrants, who at that time had been rendered voiceless by Hollywood.
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Type: DVD
Genre: World Cinema/Drama
Running Time: 122 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 2.68:1
Audio: 5.1 Surround Sound/2.0 Stereo
Language: Chinese and English with English Subtitles
About Film Movement
Founded in 2002, Film Movement is a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. It has released more than 250 feature films and shorts culled from prestigious film festivals worldwide including the Oscar-nominated films Theeb (2016) and Corpus Christi (2020). Film Movement’s theatrical releases include American independent films, documentaries, and foreign art house titles. Its catalog includes titles by directors such as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Maren Ade, Jessica Hausner, Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrzej Wajda, Diane Kurys, Ciro Guerra and Melanie Laurent. In 2015, Film Movement launched its reissue label Film Movement Classics, featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on Blu-ray and DVD, including films by such noted directors as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway, Bille August, Marleen Gorris, Takeshi Kitano, Arturo Ripstein, King Hu, Sergio Corbucci, Ettore Scola and Luchino Visconti. For more information, please visit www.filmmovement.com. Visit www.filmmovementplus.com for more information about Film Movement Plus, the new subscription streaming service from Film Movement.
