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Dead Pigs

2018

Cathy Yan

Vivian Wu, Yang Haoyu, Mason Lee, Vivien Li ...

6.4

113

Comedy. Drama A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs float down the river towards a rapidly-modernizing Shanghai, China.

	Media	Author	Review
		Jessica Kiang Variety	"[It] is delightfully uneven, eagerly see-sawing between screwy and serious (...) Its lightness does not mean it’s lightweight."
		Sarah Ward Screendaily	"Yan handles her chosen topic, and the tapestry of tales it’s woven through, with care (...) Veteran actor Wu and the comparably inexperienced Yang offer delicately textured portrayals"
		Justin Lowe The Hollywood Reporter	"Delightfully quirky (...) The conflicts among these characters are ultimately resolved in a most surprising and delightful manner"
		Devika Girish The New York Times	"It’s a tonal wild ride with eccentric characters, neon-lit settings and elaborately absurd detours. Unfortunately, the ripped-from-the-headlines meat of 'Dead Pigs' gets lost in these affectations."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An unassuming topical entertainment (...), but diverting and well-acted (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Josh Bell CBR	"[A] stylish, well-crafted movie (...) The interweaving narrative structure recalls Paul Thomas Anderson or Robert Altman"
		Siddhant Adlakha IGN	"A great first feature from Cathy Yan (...) [it] paints a vivid backdrop of globalization, wealth inequality, and the anxieties of a dual Eastern and Western existence."
		Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"A mostly sturdily constructed, and deftly edited, series of 'meanwhiles' (...) [Cathy Yan] is an ace at getting a big bang out of visual contrasts (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

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