The Embalmer (2002)

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Tears of a clown : The Embalmer
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"The Embalmer is Matteo Garrone’s fable on love, desire, loneliness and despair. An achingly sad film about a love-triangle that culminates in tragedy. Peppino is a taxi-dermist who falls for Valerio ( Valerio Foglia Manzillo) from the moment their paths cross at the zoo. Peppino offers him a job as his assistant, with a considerable pay increase, and soon Valerio becomes his protege‘. Car trouble introduces the third principal, Deborah (Elisabetta Rocchetti) a receptionist for an auto mechanic. As she begins to take Valerio away from Peppino, the friction escalates. An awful feeling starts in the pit of your stomach that something terrible is going to happen, something ghastly and unavoidable. And, of course it does. Peppino (Ernesto Mahieux) is skilled, cunning, intelligent and charismatic. He is also diminutive. He is not an actual dwarf, but in comparison to the tall, attractive Valerio, he seems small and clownish. Just like the dwarfs in Carson McCuller’s The ... " [More]

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