My Life as McDull

2001, 90 minutes / 26th Hong Kong International Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize
Dialogue: Cantonese | Subtitles: English

Synopsis (From Chinesecinemas.org)

Surprise winner of the FIPRESCI prize at the 26th Hong Kong International Film Festival (2002), the animated feature My Life As McDull will soon charm international audiences, a reception anticipated by the Udine Far East Film Festival, whose booking of McDull reportedly denied it a place at Cannes. Based on characters from a successful series of comic books by co-creators Alice Mak and Brian Tse from the early 90s, the film is told in voiceover by the mature McDull, a piglet in a world populated by both cute animals and humans. The narrative is constructed from several intertitled set pieces involving McDull's birth, education, and training as would-be Olympian, with excursions to his mother's TV cooking show, the Maldives, and other bits of whimsy. Musical accompaniment is provided by a series of adorably jovial nonsense songs set to ruminatively elegiac classical piano pieces by Schubert and Schumann.

There is always a dumber pig. - McDull

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