2018 · drama · comedy
Dead Pigs
Directed by Cathy Yan2h 2m2018
A pig farmer, a busboy, a salon owner, an expat architect and a jaded rich girl cross paths as thousands of dead pigs float down the Yangtze River toward Shanghai.
Our read: Dead Pigs (2018) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive drama · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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