BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Wordiezett So much average

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

jagerhans "Vase de Noces" is an outstanding flick . Its meaning is obvious: it's an allegory about obsession (not a particular one, provided that the particulars - teaching the pigs good manners, marrying a sow, collecting feces - are totally inane , but any mind-destroying compulsion developed in insulation ) which finally leads the obsessed one to destroy his sick love and finally himself. There is an identification man <-> obsessions and when the objects of the obsession fail, we understand that our hero is necessarily doomed. The fact that it's very graphical and disturbing is functional to the message. It is beautifully shot with great mastership of the medium, the music comment is awesome and Dominique Garny plays "heroically" his role. Now this can sound like a provocation but I think that one of the good things in this movie is that it is never excessive. The same plot in the hands of a less skilled director/actor would result in a mere shocker movie full of bad taste (imagine this movie in "Technicolor" or directed by john waters), not in that lonely descent to hell depicted by this outstanding movie. Its limit is that the story could reach a higher expressive impact if developed by a more creative director - I imagine that some Pasolini or Lynch could do even better than this.And as pointed out before, one who willfully watches a movie called "the pig-f***ing movie" automatically loses his right to complain.One last word to that plethora of Philistines who commented on this thread so far: "when the finger points at the moon, the ... look at the finger" . Please spare us your nonsenses. We already know that feces and pigs are gross, find some other argument or change your schedule.

EVOL666 I'm gonna get to the point with this one. Many consider this film "shocking". I guess if you consider simulated pig-sex and sh!t eating "shocking" - then it is. Most consider it "disgusting" and "depraved" - no real argument there. Some say it's the "SICKEST FILM EVER MADE" - that statement I *would* dispute. Call it what ya will, VASE DE NOCES (aka WEDDING TROUGH aka THE PIG F!CKING FILM) is definitely strange - but I guess I'm one of the few that actually "saw" something in this film. It's no masterpiece by any stretch - but there's something about it that makes it "interesting"...A guy who looks like Mr. Bean lives a solitary life on a small farm amidst the ruins of a large building. He co-habitates with chickens and turkeys, some birds, and...oh yes - his pig. Seems Bean has a fondness for his pig - as he spends much of the beginning of the film chasing after it in a "courting" manner. Eventually, Bean "mates" (ungraphically) with the pig and they produce offspring. Other reviewers said that they were mutant man/pig hybrids - they looked like normal pig-babies to me. Bean tries unsuccessfully to play the "good Daddy" role - and when the babies are unresponsive - he hangs them. The momma pig is distraught about this series of events and drowns herself in a mud-hole. This effectively ends any sort of "rational behavior" that Bean once had, and when he unsuccessfully tries to bury himself with his now deceased "bride" - he commits to eating his own crap before hanging himself...I can't exactly put my finger on what I found "interesting" about this film - so I'll start with the down-sides: first off, the film is WWWAAAYYYY too long. There's lot's of boring stuff that could've been cut from it, shortened to about 30-minutes, and it would have been just as "effective". 90-minutes was just too much. The beastiality "angle" is obviously gonna bother some. There are scenes of dead hanging piglets and some chicken-head-cutting-offing that will no doubt inflame the PETA-crew. Now, to what I thought were the "positive" aspects. The film itself is done in such a way as to wonder what the backstory is on this chain of events. Who is Mr. Bean? Why is he living this strange, almost child-like solitary existence? None of this is ever actually explained, but the way his character is written, makes him seem more than just some pig-effing pervert - it's almost as though he knows no better. The sound-design and "score" are suitably strange and fit the mood of the film perfectly. I think that there are some underlying "themes" of the film, regarding jealousy, nurturing, possibly mental-illness, etc...that although unresolved by the end of the film, are brought up and exposed - or maybe I'm just grasping and the film is really just about a pig-effing pervert. Regardless, I can't say that I "enjoyed" the film, but again - I did find it "interesting". I would suggest a look to those that dig subversive, uber-weirdo, experimental/art-house type films. Most people trash this film (and are justified in doing so...) but I guess for me it's a situation of one-man's-trash-being-another-man's-WEDDING-TROUGH...8/10

insomniac_rod HUGE SPOILERSObscure! sick! depraved! I dug it. I didn't enjoy most of the movie's scenes. Believe me, watching a man penetrating a pig isn't something nice to watch. Also, it's not a pleasure to watch a man eating his own excrement. What I liked about the movie is the obscure character development of "the man". I wonder what kind of mental disease or sickness this man had. He found sexual pleasure with animals but also generated love feelings towards animals. He even decides to have his own family with the pig and later kills them all... Poor little pigs. So the director tried to have a love story but only shows how humans can also be demented. The movie surely is disturbing because of it's grotesque scenes and sounds but it isn't something that will sincerely shock you. If you don't watch it objectively, you might consider it as a piece of crap. I could only recommend this movie for people who are into psychology and weird fixations. This is classified as an art movie but in my opinion is just a poor excuse of shocking film making. This movie seems to have vanished from earth.

Helltopay27 Wedding Trough is a sick piece of garbage that no human being should ever be subjected to ever knowing about, let alone viewing. Despite being an art-house film obscurity with some of the most surrealistic images ever captured on film, it's still one of the most repugnant, upsetting, and disturbing films ever made, and is no different than any other exploitation sleaze made during this period. It's sheer ability to bore and disgust is incredible beyond belief, with displays so nauseating that I had to turn away from the screen several times. I can honestly say it's the only movie that almost set off my gag reflex. Surrealism is supposed to be the interpretation and display of the artist's unconscious mind. If this is true, then director Thierry Zéno must be a latent zoophiliac who likes to subject people to the most insanely strange and disgusting series of events that will make you think the human race is doomed if even one more person remotely similar to this man exists (and there is: "star" Dominique Garny). What makes it worse is that it wasn't a painting that he used to express his warped mind, but had it actually acted out with real creatures.It's hard to examine this movie chronologically, because there essentially is no plot to speak of. More, it's the time and trials of a perverse and morally depraved farmer and his hubby, the pig. You'd almost have to describe every random and outright bizarre scene one by one in order. It opens with the farmer trying to fasten doll heads onto pigeons, and after doing this for a few minutes, he decides to go grope his pig. The movie is full of random displays of a man and his pig "bonding," such as both of them sitting and rolling in a giant pile of manure. Anyway, he decides to get naked around his pig a couple of times, then chases it around, and finally commits the deed. If you thought it might happen off screen or in the shadows, you're dead wrong. He screws his pig in full daylight with thrusts so graphic that it actually seems like he's having sex with it. When the piglets are finally born (with the births shown in their full "glory"), he tries to bond with his children, but they don't like him too much. So, he hangs them all. The sow freaks out, runs off, and drowns in a mud hole. Now that the love of his life is gone, he tries burying himself alive (which doesn't work out too well), so he spends the last ten minutes of the movie eating his own liquidated crap until he mercifully hangs himself for his sake and ours.Specifically, the stomach-churning scenes throughout are too many to count. Most notably are obviously the seriously disturbing shows of loving animals way too much (though it's no different than what you would see at a PETA compound). Other completely random and disturbing acts are animals copulating constantly, scenes of the farmer collecting strange materials and mixtures in jars, and the most vomit-worthy of all, the ten minutes of already eaten smörgåsbord, which I can say in all honesty was the most disgusting thing I've ever seen in my life. I was also surprised to see that some animals were also actually killed in the movie. Early on, a chicken has its head cut off with a straight razor, and the farmer puts the body in a cage while it runs around decapitated for about a minute before it dies. The sow and piglets also seem to have really been killed. But shocking and nauseating displays aren't the only things going against this movie. The film is downright boring. It crawls at a pace so slow that it makes Atom Age Vampire look like Terminator 2. Scenes are drawn out way too long, some that involve the farmer walking around doing nothing, others just show close ups of animals (again, often having sex), and they often last over ten minutes! The strange acts don't hold your attention for more than a few minutes, and when the scene changes, it's another chance for you to test your constitution and think, "Oh boy, here we go again!"Because I don't enjoy the inner-mechanisms of a perverse psycho's mind doesn't mean that I can't interpret art. Rather, I think this is the farthest thing you can get from art, because scenes are set up in such a way that it seems that this is simply trying to be nauseating exploitation (the coprophagia scenes, for example). As a result, any underlying messages that may be present are lost in the barrage of filth coming from the screen. Surely there are other horrifyingly grotesque films out there as art (notably Jörg Buttgereit's works), but at least those films can be found somewhat tragic and even beautiful as they deal with human feelings and sadness. This, however, is a freak show meant only to push the limits of surrealism to include perversity beyond the realm of the imagination. Its only intention in art is to hope someone who views it is naive enough to think that any bizarre images caught on a visual medium automatically makes something surrealistic art (surreal, yes; art, no). I seriously suggest that anyone curious beyond belief to see this should skip it. It's better to be driven mad by curiosity than to be stuck with these images trapped in your head for the rest of your life.