Film Details

This quirky and stylish Chinese social satire, the debut film from the director of Birds of Prey, focuses on a group of kooky characters—a provincial pig farmer, a pig-headed beauty salon owner, a lovestruck busboy, et al.—whose lives converge, collide, and cross as thousands of dead pigs float down the river toward rapidly modernizing Shanghai. Produced by Jia Zhang-ke and inspired by the 2013 Huangpu River dead pigs incident (look it up). “[A] delightful, spiky, comic debut…An antidote to China’s weightier arthouse output,” –Variety. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. 130 min

Dead Pigs, a Cinematheque streaming exclusive, can be viewed online from 5/28 thru at least 6/17 via the link below. Doing so supports the Cinematheque. Screening fee is $10 and you have 72 hours to watch it.