Drawing inspiration from a Rome tabloid case of several years back to create a compelling drama of unfulfilled dreams and frustrated desires, "The Embalmer" pulls the audience into a dark, mesmerizing ...

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With many nods at the disaffection and the stark, foggy landscapes of Michelangelo Antonioni's best films, Matteo Garrone's "L'Imbalsamatore" (The Embalmer) is worthy of a place in the pantheon of ...

"THE EMBALMER" ("L'Imbalsamatore") isn't about its characters as much as the mysteries that govern them. The charming, diminutive, fiftyish Peppino (Ernesto Mahieux) meets Valerio (Valerio Foglia ...

Peppino, the hero of this dark love triangle, isn’t exactly your standard-issue romantic lead: he’s gay, a taxidermist, and a dwarf. In a chance encounter at the zoo he meets a tall, handsome, and ...

Peppino (Ernesto Mahieux) doesn’t look too good on paper. In fact, he looks like he walked straight out of a David Lynch movie and caught the first plane to Naples. He’s so short that he is constantly ...