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The Embalmer (Italian: L'imbalsamatore, also known as The Taxidermist) is a 2002 Italian noir-drama film directed by Matteo Garrone. The film was selected for the Quinzaine des Realisateurs in the 2002 Cannes Film Festival as L'etrange monsieur Peppino. The plot is based on real events.
Sep 6, 2002 · With Ernesto Mahieux, Valerio Foglia Manzillo, Elisabetta Rocchetti, Lina Bernardi. A solitary embalmer meets a charming and unemployed waiter who becomes his assistant, but the two get involved in a morbid and unhealthy professional and personal relationship.
- (3K)
- Drama, Romance
- Matteo Garrone
- 2002-09-06
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- (237)
- Ernesto Mahieux
- Matteo Garrone
- Fandango
Peppino (Ernesto Mahieux) is a skilled but lonely taxidermist until he crosses paths with Valerio (Valerio Foglia Manzillo), a handsome waiter in search of a better job.
- (32)
- Ernesto Mahieux
- Matteo Garrone
- Fandango
Directed by Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah, and last year's wonderful Reality), The Embalmer is a fairly standard tale of obsession and jealousy framed against the world of taxidermia, which affords the film an atmosphere of strangeness in which to shroud its dark homo-eroticism.
The Embalmer (Italian: L'imbalsamatore, also known as The Taxidermist) is a 2002 Italian noir - drama film directed by Matteo Garrone. The film was selected for the Quinzaine des Realisateurs in the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
