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A look at this year’s new movie releases

“Dead Pigs” – Floaters [MOVIE REVIEW] SHARE Vivian Wu as Candy Wang and Haoyu Wang as Old Wang in Cathy Yans "Dead Pigs." Photo courtesy of Film Movement. Vivian Wu as Candy Wang and Haoyu Wang as Old Wang in Cathy Yan’s “Dead Pigs.” Photo courtesy of Film Movement. “Dead Pigs” is a head-scratcher of a movie. Cathy Yan, the writer/director, considers this film to be a social satire and in its best moments, it is. But sometimes those moments are few and far between. Ope...

Dead Pigs, 2018(Film still) As Cathy Yan’s first feature film is released on MUBI, the director speaks to Kat Haylett about making and meaning of the movie February 10, 2021 In the spring of 2013, over 16,000 dead pigs were found floating in the Huangpu River in Shanghai. Quickly, this became a national – and then global – news story due to the bizarre nature of the incident – which was attributed to the growing reluctance of farmers to cover the rising cost of burying livestock. A few ...

12 Feb 2021 Last year, everybody wanted to know who Cathy Yan was. The DC Extended Universe had just been given a gutsy makeover with Harley Quinn’s solo outing Birds Of Prey, and Yan was the director to thank. She had made just one feature before — a fizzy social satire called Dead Pigs. Those lucky enough to catch the film at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival — where it premiered before being released in China — wouldn’t have been surprised by the high-octane success of Birds Of Pr...

How the Birds of Prey director went from a low-budget Chinese satire to a $100m blockbuster, with a little help from Margot Robbie