Synopsis
A strange young man takes his family's long tradition of bizarre behavior to new heights (or depths) in this wildly perverse and explicit horror comedy from director Gyorgi Palfi. Kalman Balatony (Gergo Trocsanyi) is a grotesquely fat gentleman who was fathered by an angry hospital orderly getting revenge on his boss by having sex with his wife. While the embittered husband killed the orderly when he was caught in the act, Kalman was born as a result of the wife's indiscretion, and when he grows to adulthood he earns a modest fame as a competitive eating champion. At an eating contest, Kalman meets a female competitor, the freakish Gizi (Adel Stanczel), and the two fall in love. Kalman and Gizi marry, and she gives birth to a son, Lajos (Marc Bischoff), who grows up to be just as skinny as his parents are fat. Lajos studies taxidermy and takes up preserving animals as a career when he isn't busy taking care of his elderly and increasingly massive father. Lajos also raises a handful of unusually large house cats, and when they begin to turn on their master, Lajos uses his talents to keep them around the house without the danger of their bothering anyone. Taxidermia received its North American premier at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Year: 2009
Runtime: 92
Country: France
MPAA Rating:
Category: Feature
Produced by
Amour Fou Filmproduktion
ARTE France Cinema
Eurofilm Studio
Katapult Film
La Cinefacture
Memento Films
Mokep
Release
August 14, 2009 (USA - Limited)
by
Regent Releasing
Awards
2006 - Film Presented - Cannes Film Festival
2006 - Film Presented - Toronto International Film Festival
2006 - Film Presented - London Film Festival
2008 - Film Presented - Palm Springs International Film Festiva