''Le Cochon'' ("''The Pig''") is a fifty-minute

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co-directed by

Jean Eustache Jean Eustache (; 30 November 1938 – 5 November 1981) was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous short films, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, ''The Mother and the Whore'', is c ...

and Jean-Michel Barjol in 1970. Shot in a cinema verité style, it documents the traditional killing of a plump pig in a French rural village. Eustache had directed his first version of '' La Rosiere de Pessac'' (surrounding another annual tradition in his home village) in much the same unobtrusive style two years previously.

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French documentary films 1970 films Films directed by Jean Eustache 1970s French films {{1970s-France-film-stub