The Dancing Pig

This short burlesque film presents an anthropomorphic pig in elegant dress flirting and dancing with a woman, before being humiliated and compelled to perform for her amusement. The film is a screen adaptation of "Le cochon mondain," a successful Paris music-hall act, likely performed by its creator Odéo using the same custom-designed costume.

Cast

Odéo

as Le cochon mondain

Reviews

CinemaSerf

An Edwardian-style, suited and respectable looking pig is constantly spurned by his love. She (Edith Trublanchet) scorns and shames him before breaking into a lively and quite well synchronised dance which must have been quite difficult for pig - especially as even the set now starts to conspire aga...

drwatashi

French philosopher Roland Barthes, n his essay “Death of Author,” argued that after work is created, it's meaning no longer belongs exclusively to author. Meaning emerges through interaction between text n viewer. Ts does not mean that work can be interpreted n any arbitrary way; rather, n interpret...

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