Sunday, April 25, 2021

'Vase De Noces' aka 'Wedding Trough' (1974) - Thierry Zéno.

No greater love hath any man experienced than this distempered farmer's primal passion for his porcine, deliciously pink-snouted, mud-caked paramour! A crackling allegorical yarn giving even the most jaded film fan much in the way of flavoursome food for thought. 'Vase De Noces' saltily suggests that to genuinely experience true love one must first dispense with all boundaries, since this bestially besotted farmer's overwhelming desire for his barnyard groomed, pleasingly plump, finely bestubbled mistress simply won't be fenced in!

Does this ferociously fragrant film posit the ideologically sound idea that instead of so callously leading these coquettish beasts to the slaughter we might just as easily lead them lovingly towards a generously laden Wedding Trough? While love can frequently be all consuming, should we really be consuming everything that so hungrily catches our eye? Like the finest vintage swine this artful film certainly gets riper with age, and there is little snout in my mind that, Thierry Zéno's transgressive paen to forbidden love is an earthy little film with a very pig heart! 'Vase De Noces' has many extraordinarily idiosyncratic images that swill never be forgotten!

 


 






 

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