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| Category | Mystery DVDs, Foreign Films Movies, Love Videos, Mafia, Italian, Homosexuality, Dating | | Starring | Ernesto Mahieux, Valerio Foglia Manzillo, Elisabetta Rocchetti, Lina Bernardi, Pietro Biondi, Marcella Granito, Benardino Terraacciano | | Director | Matteo Garrone | | Additional Music/Songs | Leonard Cohen | | Composer | Banda Osiris | | Director of Photography | Marco Onorato | | Producer | Domenico Procacci, Luigi Lagrasta | | Screenwriter | Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso |
Closed Captioned; English Subtitles THE EMBALMER, directed by Matteo Garrone, is the story of unrequited love and repressed homosexuality gone awry. Peppino (Ernesto Mahieux) is a diminutive taxidermist who secretly courts an unsuspecting Greek god named Valerio (Valerio Foglia Manzillo) by grossly overpaying him to work as his assistant. Hungry for direction and purpose in life, Valerio chooses to ignore the romantic yearnings of the older, much homelier man's attentions, throws himself into the work, and pals around with Peppino in spite of their differences. Peppino orchestrates debauched nights on the town with prostitutes in an effort to gain false intimacy with Valerio. There is no denying that the younger man is a willing party, and he even looks the other way when Peppino is employed by the mob to stash drugs in corpses. When Valerio falls in love with the tempestuous Deborah (Elisabetta Rochetti), Peppino is outraged to find that she is stubborn and shrewd, and cannot be manipulated for his own ends. The seemingly gentle path of Matteo Garrone's naturalistic film gives way to darker undercurrents and a creeping suspense that is irresistibly absorbing and quietly nerve-wracking. Director of photography Marco Onorato provides deep and dark wide-angle shots. And the littered beaches and abandoned streets of Cremona and locations outside Naples create a beautifully bereft backdrop that enhances this tale of three lost souls. Theatrical Release Date: July 18, 2003 (NY) Embalmer Reviews: "...THE EMBALMER is fortified by Mahieux's thoroughly convincing performance..."
-- Jordan Reed, Box Office "...A seductive, suspenseful psychological drama..."-- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times "THE EMBALMER is masterful at concealing its true nature and surprising us with the turns of the story."-- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
This is the only Ernesto Mahieux video. Stars also making their debut in this video: Lina Bernardi, Pietro Biondi, Marcella Granito, Benardino Terraacciano. Embalmer | List Price | $17.95 (You save $4.70) | | Studio | First Run Features | | Orig Year | 2003 | | All Time Sales Rank |  35934  | | CD Universe Part number | 6712220 | | Catalog number | 911023 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | May 18, 2004 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Also Known As | L' Imblasamatore; Taxidermist | | Running Time | 104 Minutes | | Additional Info | Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Subtitled |
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