Movie Reviews The Baroness and the Pig By Hervé St-Louis September 18, 2004 - 11:22 Studios: Film Tonic, Media Principia, Wide Angle Pictures Writer(s): Michael MacKenzie Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Caroline Dhavernas, Colm Feore, Bernard Hepton, Louise Marleau, Benoît Brière Directed by: Michael MacKenzie Running Time: 95 minutes Release Date: 8 September, 2002 Distributors: Film1 The Baroness and the pig is about a rich American heiress marrying into old European aristocracy who adopts an “enfant sauvage,” a child abandoned a birth and raised with farm pigs. For the Baroness, the servant turned “Pig” is an example used in her a modern Parisian salon to display the 19th Century’s scientific achievement and progressiveness. Although with a limited cast, characters are used as archetypes to explain Fin de SiPcle Paris and the restrictions and prejudice of the old European class system. The film brilliantly exposes the conflicting views of the progressive American Baroness, who married for love and her husband, the Baron, a reseller of Italian art and pornographer, who married for money. Probably shot on digital video, this film weaves music into its plot perfectly. Maximizing the limited means of this film, set designers created a wonderful Parisian castle and creatively redecorated it as the Baroness did within the story. The work on the costumes was equally effective, especially as the American Quaker’s dresses were sober compared with the nobles’. © Copyright 2002-2022 by Toon Doctor Inc. - All rights Reserved. All other texts, images, characters and trademarks are copyright their respective owners. Use of material in this document (including reproduction, modification, distribution, electronic transmission or republication) without prior written permission is strictly prohibited.