Le Cochon (The Pig)
1970, NR, 50 min.
Directed by Jean Eustache, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

“Hieronymous Bosch’s Garden of Delights” (1979, 34 min.); “Les Photos d’Alix/Photos of Alix” (1980, 18 min.); Le Cochon (The Pig) (1970, 50 min.) D: Jean Eustache. These first two shorts are playful inquiries into the relationship between words and images. The Pig is Eustache’s recording of the slaughtering, dismemberment, evisceration, and conversion into sausage of a farm pig ­ graphic subject matter very much in keeping with the type of cultural documentaries of vanishing traditions that Eustache was so fond of filming. The film screens without subtitles, but all reports say that they are unnecessary to the comprehension of the movie.

This article appears in April 13 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.