Insane, gory, violent, crazy - but not without meaning. Absolutely perfect.

Brilliant piece, though Pasolini does not seem so gory any more

Easily makes my top 10 films of the naughties!

István Hunyadkürthy in Taxidermia (2006)

Gergely Trócsányi and Adél Stanczel in Taxidermia (2006)

Csaba Czene

István Gyuricza

Gina Moreno

György Pálfi

Lajos Parti Nagy

Zsófia Ruttkay

Story about three generations of men: pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.

Taxidermia

György Pálfi&apos;s second feature length movie is Taxidermia, which is about three generation of a family, and all of them has something very peculiar about them: the first one is a horny officer, his son is a very big sport-eater, and his job is very important of him. The third isn&apos;t special in any ways, but wants to be. He&apos;s very skinny, and there is nothing important about him. His relationship with his father is not very balanced: they diverge from each other in every possible way. But he&apos;s secretly planning something, from what he will be famous of... Nothing in Hungarian cinema&apos;s history can be compared to this. Not a single Hungarian movie was as violent as this one is sometimes. In some scene it reminded me of Pasolini&apos;s Salo. But the disgusting and the violent scenes are all meaningful; probably they are a perverse, misshapen mirror of the society. We can&apos;t say, that the leading characters are perverted, because everybody is as much perverted, as the ones we see. Fortunately this unique movie is presented by a big amount of humor - and we simply can&apos;t take the characters totally seriously. Taxidermia is a milestone in Hungarian film-making, and was worth every single cent of the Sundance money, from which it was made.

Gyorgy Palfi&apos;s grotesque tale of three generations of men, including an obese speed eater, an embalmer of gigantic cats, and a man who shoots fire out of his penis.

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György Pálfi's second feature length movie is Taxidermia, which is about three generation of a family, and all of them has something very peculiar about them: the first one is a horny officer, his son is a very big sport-eater, and his job is very important of him. The third isn't special in any ways, but wants to be. He's very skinny, and there is nothing important about him. His relationship with his father is not very balanced: they diverge from each other in every possible way. But he's secretly planning something, from what he will be famous of... Nothing in Hungarian cinema's history can be compared to this. Not a single Hungarian movie was as violent as this one is sometimes. In some scene it reminded me of Pasolini's Salo. But the disgusting and the violent scenes are all meaningful; probably they are a perverse, misshapen mirror of the society. We can't say, that the leading characters are perverted, because everybody is as much perverted, as the ones we see. Fortunately this unique movie is presented by a big amount of humor - and we simply can't take the characters totally seriously. Taxidermia is a milestone in Hungarian film-making, and was worth every single cent of the Sundance money, from which it was made.

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