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The Embalmer

The Embalmer

2002 · 101 min · IT · 7.2 (262 votes)
Dir. Matteo Garrone · Starring Ernesto Mahieux, Valerio Foglia Manzillo, Elisabetta Rocchetti, Lina Bernardi, Pietro Biondi, Marcella Granito · Music Gianluigi Carlone
DramaRomance

Peppino, a diminutive taxidermist with a reputation for sleaziness, meets Valerio, a handsome if artless much younger man fascinated by the trade. Peppino offers him a large salary to be his assistant—the job burgeoning into a budding friendship he mistakes for something more. When Valerio gets a girlfriend, their fledgling romance will be threatened by an insanely jealous third wheel.

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A darkly romantic and unsettling character study. It feels like a strange, melancholic dream about obsession and the peculiar beauty found in loneliness and the unconventional.

melancholicunsettlingromanticquirkyslow-burnarthousecharacter studydark romancequirky dramaobsessionunrequited loveoutsider artloneliness
sexual obsessionlove triangletaxidermyunrequited loveolder man younger man relationshipseaside townneo-noirevil dwarfmorbiditythird wheelrepressed gay
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