Le Cochon is a fifty-minute featurette co-directed by Jean Eustache

Jean Eustache

Jean Eustache was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous shorts, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, The Mother and the Whore, is considered a key work of post-Nouvelle Vague French cinema.In his obituary for Eustache, the influential...

 and Jean-Michel Barjol in 1970. Shot in a cinema verité style, it documents the traditional killing of a plump pig in a French rural village. Eustache had directed his first version of La Rosiere de Pessac

La Rosiere de Pessac

La Rosière de Pessac is the title of two hour-long films directed by Jean Eustache . The films cover an annual ceremony, held in Eustache's place of birth, in which the Major and his associates nominate a girl as the town's most virtuous...

(surrounding another annual tradition in his home village) in much the same unobtrusive style two years previously.