Taxidermia

2006 [HUNGARIAN]

Comedy / Drama / Horror

14
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 76% · 46 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 76% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 19460 19.5K

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Plot summary

Set over three generations and beginning with a sexually frustrated orderly during WWII who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The result of his liaison is a glutton who grows up to be a champion speed eater. He produces a child who becomes obsessed with taxidermy.

Director

György Pálfi Photo
György Pálfi

Top cast

Piroska Molnár Photo
Piroska Molnár as Hadnagyné
István Hunyadkürthy Photo
István Hunyadkürthy as Jenõ bá
Gábor Máté Photo
Gábor Máté as Öreg Balatony Kálmán
Marc Bischoff Photo
Marc Bischoff as Balatony Lajoska
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864.13 MB
1280*544
Hungarian 2.0
NR
Subtitles hu  
23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 3
1.57 GB
1918*814
Hungarian 2.0
NR
Subtitles hu  
23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 24

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by cinemart 8 / 10

three generations of fairly twisted fellows

Beginning in World War II-era Hungary, two soldiers stay at a remote country home. The sexually frustrated soldier Vendel (Csaba Czene) concerns himself with myriad masturbation techniques while watching his commanding officer's wife and daughters. The product of his frequent seed spillage, Kálmán (Gergo Trócsányi), grows to comfort his country as a champion eater. While the International Olympic Committee refuses to recognize his sport, Kalman remains stolid and captures the heart of Gizella (Adél Stanczel), a fellow female champion. Their heir, Lajos (Marc Bischoff), has not inherited an ounce of his parents' impressive girth. This sickly lad lives a life of quiet desperation as a taxidermist. A disappointment to his corpulent father, Lajos finds a few lucky solutions to solve his problems.Following these three generations of fairly twisted fellows, TAXIDERMIA is light on plot but heavy on visuals. Visceral often to the point of being gross, few bodily fluids and orifices go unseen in Palfi's sophomore feature effort. Recommended.
Reviewed by luke-346 10 / 10

Easily makes my top 10 films of the naughties!

Gyorgy Palfi's second feature Taxidermia is definitely a milestone in Hungarian film-making, it is a truly astonishing experience and I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone wanting to broaden their taste for cinema. I found the film to be a deep black comedy with some stomach churning, twisted scenes intermixed with beautiful artwork and sophomore characters. Through chronicling the lives of three generations of one family (a soldier from the Second World War, a sportsman and a taxidermist) each is shown to have their own perverse and distorted lifestyle which is cleverly exhibited through (among other approaches), myriad masturbation, excessive gluttony, deformation, dismemberment and taxidermy. In this film Palfi has created a deviant and anomalous world and, via his own talented cinema techniques, has managed to depict it in a shrewdly reflective manner i.e. he holds a mirror up to our own. Those familiar with European cinema will be able to reminisce with the many influences on show, with some scenes even harking back to Pasolini's epic, Salo - this is also combined with many other surreal influences. Some would argue that Taxidermia is a gory, violent and unnecessarily eccentric film but it is all necessary in serving its narrative and is not present for titillation purposes - as is so often found in some of the more contemporary European cinema.Generally I feel that Taxidermia tells of a society in which defect, sleaze and dishonesty serves its creators own personal vision or goal to further themselves and that this search justifies everything, regardless of how twisted or harmful. In addition to this journey Taxidermia presents the audience with some of the ugliest and darkest places of the human mind. Without saying anymore, I would even go so far to say that Taxidermia is one of the greatest feats of 21st century movie-making.
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