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Taxidermia DVD, 2006

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This strange, grotesque and visceral film could only have emerged from post-communist Eastern Europe, where fat, food and fantasy are common to both realism and surrealism. The film is the story of a freakish family told across three generations of men. The first is a hair-lipped orderly whose grim WW2 world consists of masturbation, peeping, and imbibing and expelling fire. His obese son is possibly part pig and emerges as a Hungarian champion of ‘sport eating’, becoming so fat he makes Monty Python’s Mr Creosote look like Posh Spice. His son is a skinny taxidermist forced to feed his father and his oversized cats, so pained by his progenitor’s disappointment that he reinvents himself, violently, into a work of modern art. The film is very gory and obscene but beautifully made; the faded colours of communist Hungary are artful yet tragic. This is the second film by Pálfi György (based on the brilliant short stories of poet and writer Parti Nagy Lajos) and represents the gluttonous world of a Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory gone seriously bad.

 

Mark Goodall on 12th July 2007
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Film Information

Director - Gyorgy Palfi

Produced - 2006

Main Language - Hungarian with English subtitles

Countries & Regions - European Film, Eastern European Film

Cast - Gergely Trócsányi, Piroska Molnár

 

 

DVD Details

Certificate: 18 Publisher: Tartan Video Region: 0
Length: 91 mins Aspect: 2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen Cat No: TVD3753
Format: DVD Colour Subtitles: English

 

 

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Film Description

A grotesquely deviant tale of three generations of men - a soldier, an obese speed eating champion and a taxidermist. One desires love, the other success, and the third immortality. Described as 'a goulash of bodily fluids and perversity', Taxidermia is unique, both in its imaginative construction and its onslaught of eye-popping imagery. Best not to eat just before or while watching.

 

 

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