Czech writer-director Adam Martinec has taken on a near-sacred Bohemian ritual in his Karlovy Vary Film Festival Official Competition world premiere “Our Lovely Pig Slaughter.” The annual rendering of ...
Vegetarians might want to give Adam Martinec’s funny, poignant “Our Lovely Pig Slaughter” a wide berth. Meat-eaters, however, should have fewer qualms. Indeed, there’s a case to be made that the ...
Plus, a family break-up seen through a child's eyes, a look at British artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham narrated by Tilda Swinton, and the sexual awakening of a middle-aged woman with muscular dystrophy ...
Animal rights advocates say the new regulatory regime requires private slaughterhouse employees to make decisions about which ...
Czech director Adam Martinec's debut is a funny, melancholic rural domestic dramedy that isn't afraid to reveal how the sausage gets made. Though it mines a very specifically Czech strain of absurdity ...