"Cathal Black's first full-length feature confirms him as a natural filmmaker with a firm feel for his subject--life in a squat in Dublin's decaying inner city, whither his central character, Jimmy, unemployed and with a broken marriage behind him, goes seeking refuge. Soon he is joined by others living on the margins of society: a con man down on his luck, a former inmate of a mental home, a small-time drug dealer, a pimp and his girl.... (T)his portrait of life on the rim of Dublin's tenement-land has an authentic ring to it...." (Ray Comisky, London Film Festival). "(Pigs is) a deeply felt and beautifully integrated vision of life that pulses with quiet desperation. The fluid handling of the pattern of life within and without the house holds one spellbound and reaches a kind of poetry.... The photography by Thaddeus O'Sullivan is masterly" (Liam O'Leary, International Film Guide).