Piggy

Piggy

25/1/2022 1h 39m 6.6/10

Overview

A bullied overweight teenager sees a glimpse of hope when her tormentors are brutally abducted by a mesmerizing stranger.

Director

Carlota Pereda

Top Billed Cast

Claudia Salas

Claudia Salas

Maca

Carmen Machi

Carmen Machi

Sara's Mother

Camille Aguilar

Camille Aguilar

Roci

Laura Galán

Laura Galán

Sara

Richard Holmes

Richard Holmes

The Stranger

Irene Ferreiro

Irene Ferreiro

Claudia

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6/12/2025

6/10

“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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