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Disco Pigs

Directed by Kirsten Sheridan.
With Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy, Brian F. O’Byrne.
Ireland, 2001, 35mm, color, 93 min.

This highly original and deeply moving drama, an out-of-competition addition to the festival, follows the unusual relationship between two exceptional teens, Pig (Murphy) and Runt (Cassidy). Born on the same day in the same hospital, the two—inseparable from birth—develop their own unique universe and a language only they can understand. Puberty brings with it sexual longing, however, and their relationship, once so sacred, grows increasingly unstable. Director Kirsten Sheridan (daughter of Jim) displays great sensitivity with the material, based on the stage play by Enda Walsh, creating a film that is at once a beautiful fairy tale and a ferociously twisted teenpic.

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