Leon The Pig Farmer ReviewIt was directed by Vadim Jean and Gary Sinyor, and starred Mark Frankel in the title role. It was directed by Vadim Jean and Gary Sinyor, and starred Mark Frankel in the title role. The film won the FIPRESCI International Critics' Prize at the 1. Venice Film Festival, while its directors won the Best Newcomer award from the London Critics' Circle, the Most Promising Newcomer at the Evening Standard British Film Awards, and the Chaplin Award for the best first feature from the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Show Less. Cast: Sean Pertwee, Gina Bellman, David de Keyser, Vincent Riotta, Maryam d'Abo, Janet Suzman, Connie Booth, Mark Frankel, Brian Glover. Categories: Movies, Comedy, Satire. The film’s not that strange, but the very fact that it’s a movie I liked, and that it was recommended to me by my mother, makes it peculiar. I’m still not clear on why she went to see it (I don’t think it was her idea), but she did, and she liked and thought I would too. She was right. The film is a type of low- budget, small- scale, off- beat British comedy—with social commentary—that we don’t see much of anymore. It’s not that far afield from movies like Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1. Jewish. The whole shaggy- pig story revolves around Leon Geller (Mark Frankel), his Jewishness and his endless capacity for guilt, all of which is thrown into a turmoil when it turns out that there was a mix- up at a sperm bank, so that his father (David de Keyser) isn’t really his father. Leon, a young Jewish Londoner working for his mother's catering company discovers that he is the product of a botched artificial insemination and is, in. His father turns out to be a Yorkshire pig farmer (Brian Glover). Complications ensue when Leon goes to find his biological roots, especially when he has an artificial- insemination accident of his own, cross- breeding a pig and a sheep (the prospect of kosher bacon causes much excitement in the Jewish community). The comedy is brisk and sometimes nicely fantasticated, and there’s a pleasantly human undercurrent to it all. Filmmakers Vadim Jean and Gary Sinyor borrow—and expand upon—a device from Richard Lester’s The Knack . Also splendid is Mark Frankel (who died in a motorcycle crash three years after the movie’s release ) in the lead. Not a great movie, but a great example of a type of film that could be made not that long ago for about $3. Roll that around and see what we’ve lost in the intervening 1. Watch Leon the Pig Farmer online at XFINITY TV. Find the latest on Leon the Pig Farmer Movie including full episodes, clips, and more now. Watch full length Leon the Pig Farmer Movie for Free Online. Streaming Free Films to Watch Online including Movie Trailers and Movie Clips.
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