TUESDAY, January 15, 2013, 7 PM
Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick Street (on the corner of Canal Street, one block from the A, C, E and 1 train Canal Street stops)
The first animated Korean film to screen at the Cannes, the award-winning The King of Pigs is breathtaking cinema visualized through jaw-dropping animation. Kyung-Min’s business is failing and he’s just murdered his wife. On top of that, he can’t stop thinking about his middle school days, back when he was one of the lowly, bullied “pigs” in the class. His old school friend, Jong-Suk, agrees to meet, and each man tells the other polite lies about their current broken lives. But both of them have one thing on their minds: their old classmate Chul-Yi, the quiet, deadly boy in the hoodie who fought back against their aggressors and became, for one blazing moment in time, The King of Pigs. As the two men recall their past, the dark and ugly secrets hidden under years of time begin to creep out.