The Embalmer

L'imbalsamatore

Italy

2002

101 Min

Color

2.35:1

Italian

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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SCR Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso

CAST Ernesto Mahieux, Valerio Foglia Manzillo, Elisabetta Rocchetti, Lina Bernardi, Pietro Biondi, Bernardino Terracciano

SOUND Maricetta Lombardo

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), Rotterdam (Main Programme)

Synopsis

A man too small, a boy too tall, a girl with her mouth made over, all meet by chance. An encounter that seems fated to have no story but, as fate would have it, it becomes the tormented chronicle of denied love. Peppino, the man too small, is a taxidermist. Valerio, the boy too tall, is a waiter. Deborah is one who continually changes jobs… all have different dreams, secret drives: they are three castaways trying to cling to the certainty of a love that can justify the common ills of living and make them normal. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs

Director

Matteo Garrone

Matteo Garrone is an Italian film maker. Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, in 1996 Garrone won the Sacher d’Oro, an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film Silhouette, that became one of the three episodes that are on his first long film Terra di Mezzo in 1997. He won Best Director at the European Film Awards and at the David di Donatello Awards for “Gomorrah”. —Wikipedia

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Federico Di Folco

1May13

Un buonissimo lavoro,curato in ogni suo aspetto:nello squallido panorama italico sembra quasi l'Eldorado. Garrone riesce a dar vita ad una pellicola asettica e minimale,che è costantemente attraversata da un qualcosa di torbido e morboso. Mahieux è grandioso(ho subito pensato all'uomo misterioso di Strade perdute);la sua mimica e la sua espressività inquietano davvero.I due giovani un pò cani,ma risaltano poco.3*