Taxidermia review - movie review of the György Pálfi film starring Csaba Czene

Taxidermia review

Taxidermia
:. Director: György Pálfi
:. Starring: Csaba Czene, Gergely Trócsányi
:. Script: György Pálfi, Lajos Parti Nagy
:. Running Time: 1:35
:. Year: 2006
:. Country: Hungary
:. Official Site: Taxidermia

There are films which from the start announce themselves like UFOS making no secret of their ambition to divide the audience. Taxidermia, the second full-length feature film by Hungarian director György Palfi, belongs to this category. From the first shots, one understands that the director has put his heart, soul and guts into the picture. From the grandfather's penis, literally on fire, sending its seed to the stars or to the bottom of a cut up pig, the stuffed body of his grandson, to the father's drippings, crammed with food, György Palfi displays a certain vision of the body which he explores down to the entrails.

Built around three generations of a family whose members are bound by a particular relationship to the body, Taxidermia tells the story of a lustful aide-de-camp in search of love; his son, the champion of a sport consisting of swallowing the greatest quantity of food in record time; and his grandson, a taxidermist in search of immortality.

Above all what's striking is the provocative aesthetic which the director tries to justify with his intention draw a picture of the human heart and its base instincts. A vast syllabus that's unfortunately too unassuming behind a display of scenes each as provocative as the other. György Palfi loses himself in the demonstration of his talents as a director by pushing the aesthetic to disgust and nausea, from sordid sex scenes with repetitive, plunging cascades of vomit, filmed to better splash the audience, and then moving on to a full shot immersion in the eviscerated organs. A show off piece in which Palfi looks after the smallest details, Taxidermia tries too hard to stand out and to present itself as a unique piece by refusing any possible reference in order to convince of its good faith.

Moland Fengkov

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