Friends: The Reunion: 4
Dead Pigs: 3½
Body Brokers: 2½
CRUELLA: Emma Thompson is having a great time here, Emma Stone is doing her best to keep up, and young teenage girls are sure to be delighted. Especially those who feel misunderstood and dream of a classy career. It’s not for young children, though, despite its connection to that Disney classic,
101 Dalmatians. Not that it would hurt them, just that they wouldn’t get much of it. Think
The Devil Wears Prada, and you’ll peg this one properly. Stone plays Estella, who wants to be a fashion designer, but eventually turns herself into Cruella de Vil. Along the way, the image we know of her is cleaned up, a recurring procedure by Disney these days.
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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.
Opening on Old Wang (Haoyu Yang) in a Virtual Reality Gallery, he is unpleasant, selfish, and rude a real pig. How on the nose is it that he is actually a pig farmer? Arriving home from his foray into the city, he is shocked to discover that all of his pigs, his entire livelihood, are dead. This couldn’t come at a worse time because the arrogant and ignorant Old Wang has just made an imprudent investment and owes a lot of money to some really unsavory guys.
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In the spring of 2013, more than 16,000 rotting pig corpses floated down the Huangpu River, the “Mother River” whose tributaries feed Shanghai’s water supply. Public outrage and an official investigation followed, eventually tracing the pigs to Zhejiang Province, about 60 miles outside the city. The animals had died of a disease called porcine circovirus that officials insisted was not contagious to humans, and a tangle of regulations amid a crackdown on black-market pork had led farmers to dump the remains rather than pay the government fees to dispose of them. The incident highlighted the contrast between Shanghai’s prosperous, ultramodern facade and forgotten rural communities devastated by pollution and neglect the subject of writer-director Cathy Yan’s debut feature,