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It can’t be said that this movie’s title is false advertising. Cathy Yan’s 2018 feature, coming to streaming in the U.S. this week, opens with a wide-eyed pig farmer coming home from a virtual reality demo to find one of his prize animals unexpectedly turned into an ex-pig. Old Wang (Haoyu Yang) is first befuddled, then highly dispirited as the rest of his animals go the way of all diseased flesh. He, like other pig farmers in the increasingly overdeveloped Shanghai, dumps the useless corpses in a nearby river, where they keep popping up. Like metaphors. Advertisement

Dead Pigs review – winding tale of life in cash-crazed Shanghai Peter Bradshaw A breezily westernised style of Chinese movie is on offer in this 2018 debut feature from Chinese-American film-maker Cathy Yan, who two years later went to Hollywood to direct Birds of Prey, starring Margot Robbie. Dead Pigs is an ensemble dramedy set in Shanghai that satirises – in a distinctly lenient way – the commercialism eating away at China’s heart. It is inspired by a real-life incident in which thousands of dead pigs were found in the city’s Huangpu river, dumped by poverty-stric...

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 Prey. But for the rest of us? Watching Dead Pigs in 2021, thanks to a belated streaming release, feel...

Most American audiences know Cathy Yan for having directed last year's anarchic supervillain(ess) caper Birds of Prey, but now they'll finally have a chance to catch up on her work leading up to Harley Quinn's fantabulous emancipation. The filmmaker's debut feature Dead Pigs, which premiered at Sundance in 2018 (where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting), gets its global release on Friday, and EW can exclusively reveal the darkly funny indie's trailer, above. "It feels a little bit like going back to my roots and going home," to be talking about Dead Pigs...

Mainland China-born, Hong Kong-raised Cathy Yan may have directed  Birds of Prey—in fact, she is the first woman of Asian descent to ever direct a major Hollywood superhero franchise title, and was "earmarked" specially by Margot Robbie to do so—but most people probably haven't had the chance to see Yan's first-ever feature film, Dead Pigs. After screening at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018 and winning the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting,  Dead Pigs was sold for distribution, but only in mainland China. This Friday, the film will be available for the fir...