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THREE STORIES. THREE GENERATIONS. THREE MEN. ONE BIZARRE 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.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By Brady Orme
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Format:DVD
Honestly, with all the fuss surrounding this superlative film, you'd expect Sodom-And-Gommorah to shoot through your Cathode Ray Tube and vomit creosote into your wallet. Nope. It's all very survivable, apart from a few graphic instances (which the dear-old Auntie BBFC could have excised within a heartbeat, but they didn't. There MUST be a God!). I suppose vegetarians may have a few Heart Palpitations, but there you go.
It also cocks a snoot at those naysayers who have a firm belief in the inferiority of Eastern-European cinema - "Taxidermia" is crammed with more CGI than your average Jenna Bush photoshoot. Guy Ritchie be damned, he's scrawling graffiti on the side of the Venus De Milo and can't spell "OK" yet. Take note, British cinema is LIGHT YEARS behind this. We've lost the war Comrades.
Extras? Erm, there aren't any, so pinch those pennies in anticipation of the 3-disc special edition in 2011, when it'll be released to more fanfare than the Watergate tapes. Hey-ho!
It also cocks a snoot at those naysayers who have a firm belief in the inferiority of Eastern-European cinema - "Taxidermia" is crammed with more CGI than your average Jenna Bush photoshoot. Guy Ritchie be damned, he's scrawling graffiti on the side of the Venus De Milo and can't spell "OK" yet. Take note, British cinema is LIGHT YEARS behind this. We've lost the war Comrades.
Extras? Erm, there aren't any, so pinch those pennies in anticipation of the 3-disc special edition in 2011, when it'll be released to more fanfare than the Watergate tapes. Hey-ho!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By L. Diego
Format:DVD
This is just a magnificent film!!
there are a few disgusting moments.. but that doesnt make the film any bad..
the stories are beautiful and strange full of emotion!
traditional hungarian food competitions.. that must be seen!!
immerse yourself in a different world!
dont miss this film..!
there are a few disgusting moments.. but that doesnt make the film any bad..
the stories are beautiful and strange full of emotion!
traditional hungarian food competitions.. that must be seen!!
immerse yourself in a different world!
dont miss this film..!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By MatsBolanche
Format:DVD
An absolutely post-surrealistic hungarian explicit movie product. A story in three parts, with son, father and grandfather. Starts with grandfather, a soldier with morbid feelings and a special relationship with/for pigs. He got a son, the father in the movie, born with a pigtail who growns up to be a speedeater. Has a good technique for throwing up, and of course named that technique. Finally a son is born again, the son in the movie, he is very different as personality and work in an own company. He is freakishly obsessed with taxidermy. A fantastic black comedy, its grotesque and you get an absurdist journey from postwar scenes to speedeating competition. Buy this now!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By sft
Format:DVD
This is a mordant, darkly comic tale of obsession spanning three generations. Captivating in its grossness, this is definitely not one for the squeamish. It's difficult to divine exactly what this movie is supposed to tell us, if it's attempting to tell us anything at all. The characters are uniformly grotesque, the plot is slight, and any possible meaning is distinctly nebulous. Palfi appeals to the viewer's voyeuristic tendencies and, it has to be said, not much else. But as a study of bodily compulsions it's interesting enough.
By Ejlivermore
Format:DVD
8 out of 10. This is a good film, this film has a lot of Cold War undertones, I take it that the director really wanted to get across. The film is really good if you like this sort of thing, it's in three parts. I'm not going to give anything away, but the end is very clever. Enjoy
By diane
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
What i would call a little challenging in parts to be honest, but depends on how good your stomach is,
Format:DVD
The story follows three generations of a family: one is a loyalist to a regime, another becomes a champion speed eater, and the last is an idealist.
I think there could a bit of detail hidden deep inside this film. Hidden behind grotesque scenes of a various nature. The film is not so much shocking, but more than real. The film mentions politics quite a lot, with various references to the Soviets. It is set in the Soviet-era and that might be the only reason - But, if you think of the three parts to the story. The first, a lusting, organised, ambitious soldier. Prepared to kill. The second, greedy, wealthy, overindulgent. Prepared to lavish himself in honour and mightiness. Then the third. A skinny man hanging around to frame the death of himself, in his idea of beauty. All this could be mounted as a tribute to the rise and fall of communism.What should have been a thing of beauty was in reality, a greedy and self obsessed affair.
Could this be a really strange story, almost a tribute to the Soviets rise and fall? Or, am I reading to deep? They do mention it a lot and even have a scene on the boat with a man arguing the virtue of it all.
I think there could a bit of detail hidden deep inside this film. Hidden behind grotesque scenes of a various nature. The film is not so much shocking, but more than real. The film mentions politics quite a lot, with various references to the Soviets. It is set in the Soviet-era and that might be the only reason - But, if you think of the three parts to the story. The first, a lusting, organised, ambitious soldier. Prepared to kill. The second, greedy, wealthy, overindulgent. Prepared to lavish himself in honour and mightiness. Then the third. A skinny man hanging around to frame the death of himself, in his idea of beauty. All this could be mounted as a tribute to the rise and fall of communism.What should have been a thing of beauty was in reality, a greedy and self obsessed affair.
Could this be a really strange story, almost a tribute to the Soviets rise and fall? Or, am I reading to deep? They do mention it a lot and even have a scene on the boat with a man arguing the virtue of it all.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film is the perfect antidote for those fed up of feeling inferior after watching the Hollywoodised view of life with perfectly groomed beauties sipping skinny lattes in trendy coffee bars.
This film gets to the root of humanity by showing the ugly side of life. Stripped of all but our most basic animal instincts (mainly sex and eating) the film manages to be grim, but often darkly humourous. The film intends to shock, and I'm sure that more prudish audiences would struggle to stomach some scenes. Personally I never felt offended, but I can see how some might be.
We see the three separate stories, linked presumably by family history, over three generations and everything is laid bare. There's perfect scope to build a fondness for the characters, but this never really happens. There was only a brief point at which I cared about what would happen to someone in the film (the Hungarian man and wife super-eaters) and although I still felt compelled to follow the film through to see how the three stories progress, my interest was minimal.
The fantastic direction and artistic imagery make this film watchable. In fact, they make it enjoyable despite the grim subject matter. Without such a strong creative approach I'd have had to force myself to watch the film.
So in a nutshell: A film with characters who lack the depth required to invoke a magnetic appeal, but expressed in an imaginative way which has to be seen to be appreciated. Not always the easiest film the watch, but maybe that's because it reminds us too much of what we all really are. It gets 3.5 stars from me, I'd love to have this fall the way of a 4, but I'm going to go with a 3. Some good bonus features on this DVD (ANY in fact!) would have no doubt helped sway me to a a higher score.
This film gets to the root of humanity by showing the ugly side of life. Stripped of all but our most basic animal instincts (mainly sex and eating) the film manages to be grim, but often darkly humourous. The film intends to shock, and I'm sure that more prudish audiences would struggle to stomach some scenes. Personally I never felt offended, but I can see how some might be.
We see the three separate stories, linked presumably by family history, over three generations and everything is laid bare. There's perfect scope to build a fondness for the characters, but this never really happens. There was only a brief point at which I cared about what would happen to someone in the film (the Hungarian man and wife super-eaters) and although I still felt compelled to follow the film through to see how the three stories progress, my interest was minimal.
The fantastic direction and artistic imagery make this film watchable. In fact, they make it enjoyable despite the grim subject matter. Without such a strong creative approach I'd have had to force myself to watch the film.
So in a nutshell: A film with characters who lack the depth required to invoke a magnetic appeal, but expressed in an imaginative way which has to be seen to be appreciated. Not always the easiest film the watch, but maybe that's because it reminds us too much of what we all really are. It gets 3.5 stars from me, I'd love to have this fall the way of a 4, but I'm going to go with a 3. Some good bonus features on this DVD (ANY in fact!) would have no doubt helped sway me to a a higher score.
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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. Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2008 by Jazzman
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This is a wonderful bizarre film, structured in three-tree-family acts and each one eerier and more terryfing, I love it and think of getting a copy on dvd.. Read more
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