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23 August 2006 (France)
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Three stories. Three generations. Three men. One bizarre and shocking universe.
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Gyorgy Palfi's grotesque tale of three generations of men, including an obese speed eater, an embalmer of gigantic cats, and a man who shoots fire out of his penis. | full synopsis
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Tiff ‘09: Short Takes
(From SoundOnSight. 24 September 2009, 9:54 AM, PDT)
Film: Review:Taxidermia
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(From SoundOnSight. 24 September 2009, 9:54 AM, PDT)
Film: Review:Taxidermia
(From The AV Club. 20 August 2009, 12:06 PM, PDT)
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Insane, gory, violent, crazy - but not without meaning. Absolutely perfect.
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Canada:91 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | Argentina:91 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival) | USA:91 min
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France:-16 |
Norway:18 |
Hungary:18 |
Singapore:R21 |
Argentina:18 |
Australia:R |
UK:18 (uncut) |
Portugal:M/16 |
Germany:16 |
Finland:K-18 |
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Director György Pálfi won $10,000 at the 2004 Sundance/NHK Filmmakers Award while Taxidermia was in pre-production. The other two projects that won in 2004: Casa de Areia (2005) and Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005).
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György Pálfi's second feature length movie is Taxidermia, which is about three generation of a family, and all of them has something very peculiar about them: the first one is a horny officer, his son is a very big sport-eater, and his job is very important of him. The third isn't special in any ways, but wants to be. He's very skinny, and there is nothing important about him. His relationship with his father is not very balanced: they diverge from each other in every possible way. But he's secretly planning something, from what he will be famous of... Nothing in Hungarian cinema's history can be compared to this. Not a single Hungarian movie was as violent as this one is sometimes. In some scene it reminded me of Pasolini's Salo. But the disgusting and the violent scenes are all meaningful; probably they are a perverse, misshapen mirror of the society. We can't say, that the leading characters are perverted, because everybody is as much perverted, as the ones we see. Fortunately this unique movie is presented by a big amount of humor - and we simply can't take the characters totally seriously. Taxidermia is a milestone in Hungarian film-making, and was worth every single cent of the Sundance money, from which it was made.