Taxidermia Details

2006

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50
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Starring	Csaba Czene, Gergo Trocsanyi, Adel Stanczel, Geza Hegedus
Director	Gyorgy Palfi
Genres	Drama

Taxidermia

Three stories. Three generations. three men. One bizzare and shocking universe.

Orderly Grandfather is a love-craving fantasist who lives off feverish dreams and his fertile imagination. Speed-eater Father is a leading sportsman who for four years held first place in his category within the confectionery industry. He is still unbeatable in chocolate wafers with an individual record of 2.98. Taxidermist Son's weight at birth was just one-and-a-half-kilos. Now he has less than one-and-a-half minutes left to perform the ultimate in auto-body modification procedures. Hilariously sick and outrageously deviant, this gross-out visual feast is shock cinema at its best.

Starring	Csaba Czene, Gergo Trocsanyi, Adel Stanczel, Geza Hegedus, Marc Bischoff, Piroska Molnar
Director	Gyorgy Palfi
Studio	PALISADES TARTAN
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 31 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: Hungarian
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	DVD: 13 Aug 2007 Production year: 2006
Format	DVD

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Tracing three corporeally fixated generations of a family through the respective filters of sexual frustration,... read more on Time Out
- Ben Walters,
- Time Out
- Posted 04 Nov 2008
One of the biggest head-fucks ever committed to celluloid
- Bizarre
- Posted 08 Oct 2007
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11 out of 11 people found this review helpful

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Taxidermia is taxing on patience

So, Taxidermia. A film that is basically 90 minutes of taboos strung together into a vague narrative form. I didn't like this movie. Yes, it's shock cinema, which I have no problem with. No matter how many penis shots, vomit scenes or swear words are depicted in a film, it doesn't offend me. The problem is, it's all rather boring. After a while, I was so bored by these three incompetent stories that I was hoping that one of the grotesque Hungarians would vomit just for something to watch.

Yes, it is bizarre in places - but never bizarre enough. I feel like I've seen all these gags and tokenistic motifs of obscurity too many times before. It is devoid of wit. For a shock cinema example, it's never really shocking enough - just vaguely puerile.

However, thankfully, it knows what it is, and doesn't descend into pretentiousness like other shock movies have done. Plus, there are some genuinely funny moments in the film that are original in themselves, but not worthy of viewing the film in it's own right.

If it was longer than 90 minutes, I probably wouldn't have bothered.
- - Flanimal from Leicester
  - Posted 18 Jan 2008 19:54
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

[Highly rated reviewer]

Mystified

I got the variations on a theme of stuffing or getting stuffed, appreciated the atmosphere of violence, loneliness and degradation, picked up on various recurring images, saw flashes of black humour, appreciated the visuals and the editing, was suitably grossed out by the viscerality, but have no idea at all what it all adds up to. i'm not one of those reviewers who blames the film for his own stupidity or lack of perception, so I ask, in all humility and as a genuine question - what the **** was this all about? Please help.
- - FrankIV
  - Posted 13 Dec 2007 10:50
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