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Taxidermia
(2006)
 
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Director:
György Pálfi |
COUNTRY
Hungary/Austria/France |
GENRE
Comedy/Drama |
INTERNATIONAL
TITLE
Taxidermia |
NORWEGIAN
TITLE
Taxidermia |
RUNNING
TIME
91
minutes |
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Producer:
Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
Emilie Georges
Gabriele Kranzelbinder
Alexandre Mallet-Guy
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Screenwriter
(based on short stories by Lajos Parti Nagy):
György Pálfi
Zsófia Ruttkay |
Review
Director
Pálfi draws inspiration from Peter Greenaway and David Cronenberg in
this black comedy centered around three generations of obsessions in
pre- to post-communist Hungary. The explicit themes are sex, food and
the (im)mortality of the human body, and Pálfi makes it come alive
through his delicate lens and his great sense of set pieces. In
segments, Taxidermia will get to you with riveting effect as
Pálfi's images balance playfully between the visceral and the
aesthetic, between the ugly and the beautiful. The social comments
included has a Kaurismäkian quality, and Pálfi's fine command of the
timeline he presents gives the film relevance seen in a political and
social light. Seen as a reaction to communistic rationing, the gluttony
of Kálmán must naturally be put to an end by post-communist Lajoska.
Top notch musical score by Amon Tobin caps this original film.
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