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Taxidermia

Hungary, Austria, France

2006

91 Min
Color
2.35:1
Hungarian, Russian, English
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DIR György Pálfi

EXEC Péter Miskolczi, Gábor Váradi

PROD Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Emilie Georges, Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexandre Mallet-Guy

SCR György Pálfi, Lajos Parti Nagy, Zsófia Ruttkay

DP Gergely Pohárnok

CAST Csaba Czene, Gergely Trócsányi, Piroska Molnár, Adél Stanczel, Marc Bischoff, István Gyuricza, Gábor Máté, Géza Hegedüs D., Zoltán Koppány, István Hunyadkürthy

ED Réka Lemhényi

PROD DES Adrien Asztalos

MUSIC Amon Tobin, Albert Márkos

Cannes (Un Certain Regard), Transilvania: Best Direction, Toronto (Visions), Helsinki, London (Cinema Europa), Chicago (Competition), Tribeca (Showcase), Mar del Plata

Synopsis

Gyorgy Palfi’s second feature Taxidermia is definitely a milestone in Hungarian film-making, it is 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. Best film in both Chicago & Transylvanian Film Festival in 2006. –hungariant

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György Pálfi

György Pálfi was born in 1974 in Budapest. He started shooting experimental Super 8 movies in 1987 and began making a name for himself while still in school at Budapest’s Theater and Film Academy (1995–2002) where he studied direction. He drew international attention with his writer-director feature debut Hukkle, honored with a European Film Award for Discovery of the Year, and at festivals in Sochi, Cottbus, and Budapest. His second feature, Taxidermia, quickly became known for its kinkiness and violence. Taxidermia received the best director award at the 2006 Transylvania International Film Festival and four prizes at Hungarian Film Week – for best film, best supporting actor, best supporting actress and the critics award. He often writes the scripts for his films and even occasionally acts. —seefilmla.org 

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Harry Rossi

20May13

There are aspects of this film that I loved and aspects I didn't quite understand. I wish the film was longer, because 30 minutes per segment wasn't enough for me to establish an emotional connect to these characters. The filmmaking and visuals were excellent and I loved the film's fascination with the grotesque. The ending was magic and very moving. Some things worked and some things didn't. Overall I liked it a lot

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Mathias Palmberg

17Feb13

OK! There is good weird and there is bad weird. And this was sooooo far away from good it's not funny. I just can't believe someone actually wanted to fund this mess. Stranger still is the fact that the movie is really well made and probably cost a pretty penny. So don't waste your time...

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Rebeca Magnus

16Nov12

Great film! The esthetic is simply amazing.

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JaimeOBWK

16Sep12

Disturbing

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TIFF Report: Taxidermia Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
[TIFF info page here.] A compelling, utterly unique, deeply bizarre film György Pálfi’s Taxidermia – his sophomore film following the greatly acclaimed Hukkle – is like nothing you have never seen before
→ read on Twitchfilm.com

TIFF Report: Taxidermia Review

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
[TIFF info page here.] A compelling, utterly unique, deeply bizarre film György Pálfi’s Taxidermia – his sophomore film following the greatly acclaimed Hukkle – is like nothing you have never seen before
→ read on Twitchfilm.net

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By defined​ivine on November 23, 2009

It’s a exaggerated reality. Face it. All in all, fucking disturbing, but hey, at some point, life gets disturbing, Palfi, just chose to show it in this way. I won’t say i love it, but surly i really…  read review

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By Salem Kapsask​i on September 28, 2009

Taxidermia is the second full length film by Hungarian film-director György Pálfi (I have not yet seen his first film Hukkle) and is based on the short stories by Lajos Parti Nagy. It follows the…  read review

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