Vase de noces
Tags: psychedelic, avant garde

Plot synopsis:
The film follows a man, who has an intellectual or mental disorder, living on a farm in rural Belgium. He demonstrates bizarre behavior from the beginning, such as fastening doll's heads to pigeons, collecting his feces in glass jars and beheading a hen for his own amusement. He is also obsessed with a sow who lives on the farm.
We see him gleefully rolling around in the manure with the sow, and then he rapes her, which his behavior suggests he sees as an intimate and mutually agreeable act. Later, the sow gives birth to a litter of piglets. The man attempts to spoon-feed milk to the piglets, but the piglets prefer to drink directly from the milk bowl. In general, the piglets prefer their mother's company, repeatedly scorning the man's advances. Taking this rejection as an unforgivable personal slight, the man hangs the piglets and leaves their bodies strung up in the open. When the sow discovers the remains of the piglets, she runs madly around the farm squealing. The sow slips into a deep patch in the mud and drowns there.
The man searches for the sow, and becomes visibly distraught when he discovers her dead. He drags the body from the mud, buries it on the farm grounds, and crudely attempts to bury himself on a patch of ground nearby. He gets up, and his grief turns to rage. He rushes around the farm scattering and smashing his belongings from the house, including his jars of waste.
He prepares and vigorously consumes a "tea" made of feces and urine, determinedly climbs a ladder in the barn and hangs himself with a rope. In the final scene is his spirit floating skyward.

Review: Can you think of anything more interesting than seeing a demented farmer walk around his farm for 80 minutes, occasionally playing dress-up with his birds, beheading his chickens, and having steamy sex with his wife, who happens to be a pig?
I fail to see the deeper meaning of a man running around naked in the mud chasing a sow, but then again, I never was that good at reading between the lines.
After all, how could any fan of obscure film pass up the chance to see something called "The Pig F----ng Movie"?
A farmer(Dominique Garny)who may be the last man on earth,loves and makes love to a huge sow-pig.When the sow gives birth,he takes the piglets from her to keep her from eating them,and knits cute little infant things for them.When the piglets abandon him for their mother,he executes them by hanging,and the sow shows the first distress she has shown for the whole film."Wedding Trough",more commonly known as "The Pig Fu*king Movie" is certainly one of the sickest films ever made.It's loaded with scenes of implied bestiality,coprophagia and insanity,so fans of unrelentingly grim,experimental transgressions will be satisfied.The action is set on a secluded rural farm and the film is completely devoid of dialogue.Still despite its truly repellent subject matter the action is slow,but the scenes of the farmer sodomizing his swine or eating his own excrement are sick as hell.Give it a look,only if you are into extreme cinema.8 out of 10..
Intense "Vases De Noces" gives a disturbing look at the end of man's survival.
I approached Vases De Noces with sheer caution, knowing what would lie ahead of me and all the talk surrounding it, it remains as strange, quiet, savage and disgusting.
It has scenes that are revolting and ugly, you could beg the film for mercy to end and it still lingers on the screen like smoke.
Sure all of this could make out that Vases De Noces (aka The *beep* movie) is such a wretched film that could leave you nauseated and would make you not look at an animal for a while, why is there a movie like Vases De Noces around?
Lingers about his farm tending to his chickens or putting dolls on them or just frolicking with his pig.Sure, frolicking with his beloved pig; chasing it around, rolling around the manure,until finally having sex that made me flinch in disgust, it's not too graphic but weirdly well done.Many reviewers have focus on the content and how tedious it is,never noticing how the sky and landscape shows how the post-apocalyptic the world is.
A strange but funny scene when the farmer eats and feeds his offspring, the little piglets run over to his plate.
This review will make you think I enjoyed this film,although I can admit that I only enjoyed the cinematography and the isolation of the farmer.Watching this after watching the tedious Nekromantik 2 which went on and went on, I was engulfed from the loneliness of the farmer.Like the first original Nekromantik, the hero kills himself after it's horrific lifestyle in a very enigmatic way.Not much things are explained and I don't mind at all.
I settle in giving Vases De Noces three stars out of four or a 6 1/2 out of 10, Not to saying I hated it or loved it, all I could tell you is don't watch it..
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.
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.
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 ...
Given the rather blunt international title, it should come as no surprise to find that 70s Belgian art-house oddity Vase de Noces is about a guy getting jiggy with a piggy, but the content isn't just limited to (presumably simulated) bestiality: there's all sorts of other deviancy on display, some of which proves even more disturbing than the man-on-swine action.
During the course of the film, the viewer is also treated to countless shots of mating farmyard birds, excessive full-frontal male nudity, some animal cruelty, and, towards the end, nauseating scenes of coprophagia.Naturally, the promise of such wanton depravity and filth is bound to attract those film-fans who like their entertainment to push the boundaries, but be warned...
even though this is seriously warped stuff, it is also an extremely boring experience thanks to director Thierry Zéno's insufferable artistic pretensions: shot in black and white without a single word of dialogue for the entire 80 minutes running time, the film regularly cuts from the more freaky fare to offer up lingering shots of chickens and turkeys strutting round the farm or mind-numbingly monotonous scenes of the farmer arranging jars, playing with a hoop and stick, preparing lunch and having a bath (all of which is accompanied by a suitably strange soundtrack consisting of unconvincing post-production sound effects, avant-garde choral music and surreal electronic bleeping)..
What I liked about the movie is the obscure character development of "the man".
The movie surely is disturbing because of it's grotesque scenes and sounds but it isn't something that will sincerely shock you.
This is classified as an art movie but in my opinion is just a poor excuse of shocking film making.
Now I will admit I am a huge fan of any film deemed disturbing, gross or wrong (my download collection includes all of the Guinea Pig movies, Un Chien Andalou, Nekromantik among many others) and it actually took me a while to hear of Vase de Noces.
I admit it was hard to concentrate on the artiness of the film when man-pig breeding and coprophagia is going on but I did take a few minutes to appreciate the surreal aura of the film.
everything became clear to me: obviously, the protagonist is a farmer boy with mental problems, probably caused by something like, perhaps, childhood terrorism, it isn't mentioned in the movie (no dialog, remember?), but it's clear to say this teenage boy has got real problems.
and he has got some weird needs, but only (I interpret) because he lives alone, he's homosexual and no man in around (and no woman either) to help him get off his sexual desires.
to know this, you must see this art house movie, pure genius.
and the thing about it all, is its hidden message, which I thought was that we must stop hating homosexuals and welcome them in society to avoid situations like the one portrayed in 'Vase de noces', one of the best films I've ever seen..
What Do You Expect From Something Called THE PIG F!CKING FILM???.
I guess if you consider simulated pig-sex and sh!t eating "shocking" - then it is.
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.
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.
Other reviewers said that they were mutant man/pig hybrids - they looked like normal pig-babies to me.
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.
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.
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.
Whereas Eraserhead is renowned for being the archetypal "midnight movie", it is umpteen times more accessible than Vase De Noces.What drove me to watch this film?
When the pig-children favour their mother for affection, the farmer is devastated and hangs them all.
Throughout the film, we see clips of him forcing dolls' heads on pigeons and arranging various foul substances in jars, maybe to pass the time, maybe as an obsessive mania, nothing is for certain.
What is certain is that this man is a sad case (the actor too if some of the more unsavoury moments are played out for real), and we as viewers have a disturbing experience intruding on his life.
It's a movie about a guy f-cking a pig.
I mean, come on, I HAD to watch it.Anyway, the problem with the film is not that he f-cks a pig and has pig-human hybrid babies.
The film is plodding, muddled, nonsensical, amateurish and just overall bad.I mean, this is the kind of movie that you would EXPECT to have poor technical quality, but that doesn't make it any more allowable.
More boring than it is icky, it just overall sucks, even for a movie about a guy f-cking a pig.{Grade: 0/10 (F) / #32 (of 32) of 1974}.
Many of the reviews for this film are misleadingly similar, and seem to be copying one another while leaving out key details.** SPOILERS ** PLOT: A young man living entirely by himself in an abandoned church or monastery courts his pig, breeds with her, and then tries to care for the piglets.
Finally, he hangs himself and seems to float in the air like a kite after his death.And yes, as one person says, there is bestiality and feces-eating--"it's called the pig-f*cking movie,"don't act astonished.
:p If you want the director's opinion, here is his description, more or less: "A solitary man lives in an abandoned farm.
A note: there has always been that bourgeois "disgust" with the goings-ons at places like farms, such as slaughtering chickens, boinking animals, the mere presence of manure, the violence and open sexuality of animals (birds in this case), the "grotesqueness" of actual birth, and the general "muckiness" of life.
Criticizing the film for depicting these realities (of life itself) is as gratuitous as the film is said to be.More errors: the IMDb database says it is a continuity error that the man goes into the pig's grave with clothes on and emerges naked.
The birds fly away, while the piglets show no such transcendence--so maybe that is why he kills them (or because death, as transformation, is fundamental to alchemy).No one talks about the birds in the film, but it is interesting to notice that the chickens are especially cruel, the turkeys are sexual and engage in what looks (or at least sounds) like a gang rape, and the ducks merely look on curiously, being neither cruel nor sexual.
Maybe the man can't breed with them because they're avians (or, in the context of the film, can't fly).
In any case, we are presented initial with an image of the unification of man and animal, which ends with him floating in the air like his bird-like (i.e., tethered kite), rising higher and higher.Make what you will about all of this, the movie's not just about sex with pigs and gobbling waste.
If nothing else, the man may want transcendence from his condition (by extension, our condition) just as badly as you wish he'd transcend (i.e., leave) it.Lastly, I suggest if you find this movie boring, it's because you know there are scenes of pig-boinking and feces eating, and your impatience for the movie to get to that drives your sense of boredom with the rest of what is going on.
That's not a good way to watch this movie.
If gratuitous sensationalism is what you want to experience so you can brag to friends about how "out there" you are about movies, go watch something else..
'Wedding Trough' AKA 'Vase de noces' is a 1970s art house silence film, about a crazy disturb nameless farmer, (Dominique Garny) who falls in love with his pig, which leads to first bestiality, rape, and then, murder, when the relationship to him, has turned soured.
In the film, they try to show this, by having the farmer father pig mutant babies, however, since the movie had no funds to make convincing half-human pig children.
In the end, he is the one that degenerate, the furthest, showing how beastly, human being can become; which is foreshadowed, by the cutting of the head of the hen, in the beginning of the film.
If you look further, into the black and white film, it seem to me, that the man is a condemned soul that living in what looks like, a post Rapture world, as there is nobody else, around, besides him and Beelzebub (AKA the Pig).
Typically, the film works the same way, as if allows the audience to watch it, without being judge.
Yet, I have a feeling, the majority of people that, somehow like, this film, has that same disturb mental mindset.
I don't like this movie, at all, not only, due to the large amount of animal cruelty, but badly paced, it is.
The scene of him eating his feces lasts for almost half an hour, nearly a third of the movie.
In short, the film seem, least than an art house film, and more like weird fetish porno.
In the end, "Vase de noces" has become one of the rarest films that isn't a "lost film", because of that.
There is also a documentary, about the making of the film, out there, but I have yet, to watch it.
Overall: I really couldn't tolerate, watching this explicit movie at all, even with my weird sense of morbid curiously.
In the end, I really can't recommended, watching this sadistically evil film.
For people to even suggest that Olof_kmek's comment was useful has either never seen this movie, or has no idea what this film is about.
This film has nothing to do with love, but pure sadistic acts of bestiality, coprophagia, murder, and suicide.The film has a very incoherent plot structure, and is difficult to describe chronologically due to several strange and often random scenes interweaved into the overall story.
A farmer, who may be the last person on Earth, lives on a rural farm in Belgium, and falls in love with his huge sow.
After which, the sow gives birth to human/pig hybrids, whom the farmer immediately tries to bond with.
I read about this movie on a website at first and thought "A man boinking his pig?
The pig boinking scenes are, eh, well clearly he's really enjoying it and as much as I wanted to stop watching it, I couldn't, it's like a car wreck.
Although, I think the scene where he's naked chasing the pig around that pen is even more disturbing-he's like a hunter going after his prey.
He also acts obsessive with the piglets, who by the way don't look mutant, they look like cute little piglets and there are 2 funny scenes with them when he tries to cloth the piglets and they don't want to wear the clothes.
The whole movie is void of talking, just the sounds of the animals and the music.
Although there are a lot of slow scenes in this movie I think they help convey the emptiness of his days, the loneliness being surrounded by nothing but animals, and the mundane ordinariness of it all.
The film was vase de noces,also known as The wedding trough,and the much cruder title The pig fornicating film.
As the film progresses we see a bizarre courtship between man and animal culminating in a very graphic scene of bestiality.
Strangely enough the sow becomes pregnant and gives birth to three little piglets in a graphic birthing scene.
We watch as the farmer tries in vain to raise the quote unquote children but fails as they prefer there mother to him.In a fit of desperation he hangs all the piglets.
This being seen by the mother pig,she runs into a mud pit and drowns.To the farmers despair he hauls his beloved out of the pit and attempts to bury her with himself.
The film plays out like tragedy.
I do not condone this film for the fact that the idea of platonic love between a man and an animal not only disturbs me but i also find it reprehensible.
Be warned this film does feature excrement eating, sex with animals, oh and a chicken has its head cut off.
The film features a man that has sex with a pig, and this results in the pig having human/pig hybrids.
He them buries himself alive with her but resurrects himself, this leads on the excrement eating to which he becomes violently ill due to and the film ends on the actors hanging himself from a very high ladder, oddly enough.