Top Cast
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Laura Galán
Sara
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Richard Holmes
Desconocido
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Carmen Machi
Madre de Sara
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Irene Ferreiro
Claudia
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Camille Aguilar
Roci
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Claudia Salas
Maca
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José Pastor
Pedro
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Fernando Delgado-Hierro
Juancarlitos
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Julián Valcárcel
Padre de Sara
Overview
A bullied overweight teenager sees a glimpse of hope when her tormentors are brutally abducted by a mesmerizing stranger.
Rating
2 Reviews
- Manuel São Bento7 Feb 21, 2022
FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://www.msbreviews.com/movie-reviews/piggy-spoiler-free-review-sundance-2022 "PIGGY is the right type of film to be one of the last movies in an event such as the Sundance Film Festival. Carlota Pereda takes advantage of the terrific lead performance from Laura Galán, and delivers a shocking, violent, frighteningly grounded story about bullying, fat-shaming, and self-acceptance. Despite taking a more revenge-driven approach, the filmmaker beautifully develops the moral concepts at hand. The romantic subplot doesn't really work, though, and the film would have benefited from a stronger atmosphere. In addition to this, just a couple of impactful dialogues surrounding the main themes would have drastically improved the overall piece. Still, it's definitely a must-watch." Rating: B+
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CinemaSerf6 Jun 12, 2025“Sara” (Laura Galán) usually spends most of her time helping out in her dad’s butchers shop; being shunned or downright bullied by her schoolmates for being large and getting precious little sympathy from her over-bearing mother (Carmen Machi). Things come to an head when three of her friends resort to terrifying and embarrassing her whilst she is swimming in the lake and then stealing her clothes. As she is running home, she encounters a van with a most mysterious couple of passengers - one of whom, shall we say, is a bit less willing to be in the van than the other! Next thing, there is a police investigation into a missing person and then her tormentors disappear too! With the community becoming frantic, people are levelling accusations left, right and centre and the question is - what does Sara know? This is a savage indictment of bullying in many of it’s guises and Galán delivers quite engagingly, but that angry and penetrating drama rather peters out after quite an emotionally odious start before turning into something a bit predictable and disappointing. If only it’s auteur Carlota Pereda had had the nerve to stick with her original, more innovative and characterful thrust then this could have presented a much better and altogether messier and more satisfying conclusion. It’s watchable, and sometimes quite uncomfortable at that, but it’s not quite what it could have been.
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