“最高の夏、じゃない。”
スペインの田舎町。ティーンエイジャーのサラはクラスメイトからの執拗なイジメに苦しんでいた。両親や弟からも理解されず、家の中でも居場所を見つけられないサラはヘッドホンに頭をうずめて自分の気持ちを閉じこめる日々を送っていた。ある日、あまりの暑さにひとりで地元のプールへと出かけたサラは、怪しげな謎の男と、３人のクラスメイトと鉢合わせてしまう。再びクラスメイトたちのイジメの標的となるサラ。しかし、その帰り道、恐ろしい現場に遭遇する。それは、血まみれになった３人のいじめっ子たちが、謎の男の車に拉致され、連れ去られるところだった…。
製作費: $2,400,000 (4億円)
興行収入: $543,064 (1億円)
推定収支: $-1,856,936 (-3億円)
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監督: カルロタ・ペレダ
脚本: カルロタ・ペレダ
音楽: Olivier Arson
制作: Álvaro Longoria / Merry Colomer / Pilar Benito
撮影監督: Rita Noriega
制作会社: Morena Films / Backup Media / Cerdita AIE
FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://www.msbreviews.com/movie-reviews/piggy-spoiler-free-review-sundance-2022 "PIGGY is the right type of film to be one of the last movies in an event such as the Sundance Film Festival. Carlota Pereda takes advantage of the terrific lead performance from Laura Galán, and delivers a shocking, violent, frighteningly grounded story about bullying, fat-shaming, and self-acceptance. Despite taking a more revenge-driven approach, the filmmaker beautifully develops the moral concepts at hand. The romantic subplot doesn't really work, though, and the film would have benefited from a stronger atmosphere. In addition to this, just a couple of impactful dialogues surrounding the main themes would have drastically improved the overall piece. Still, it's definitely a must-watch." Rating: B+
“Sara” (Laura Galán) usually spends most of her time helping out in her dad’s butchers shop; being shunned or downright bullied by her schoolmates for being large and getting precious little sympathy from her over-bearing mother (Carmen Machi). Things come to an head when three of her friends resort to terrifying and embarrassing her whilst she is swimming in the lake and then stealing her clothes. As she is running home, she encounters a van with a most mysterious couple of passengers - one of whom, shall we say, is a bit less willing to be in the van than the other! Next thing, there is a police investigation into a missing person and then her tormentors disappear too! With the community becoming frantic, people are levelling accusations left, right and centre and the question is - what does Sara know? This is a savage indictment of bullying in many of it’s guises and Galán delivers quite engagingly, but that angry and penetrating drama rather peters out after quite an emotionally odious start before turning into something a bit predictable and disappointing. If only it’s auteur Carlota Pereda had had the nerve to stick with her original, more innovative and characterful thrust then this could have presented a much better and altogether messier and more satisfying conclusion. It’s watchable, and sometimes quite uncomfortable at that, but it’s not quite what it could have been.
