
The Embalmer
Peppino is an aging taxidermist mocked for being short and sleazy who meets Valerio, a handsome if artless young man fascinated by his work. Euphoric, Peppino offers him a large salary to come work as his assistant, with the job burgeoning into a budding friendship Peppino mistakes for something more. But when Valerio meets Deborah, their fledgling romance is threatened by an insanely jealous third wheel.
- Year: 2002
- Country: Italy
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Studio: Fandango
- Keyword: sexual obsession, love triangle, taxidermy, unrequited love, older man younger man relationship, seaside town, neo-noir, evil dwarf, morbidity, third wheel, repressed gay
- Director: Matteo Garrone
- Cast: Ernesto Mahieux, Valerio Foglia Manzillo, Elisabetta Rocchetti, Lina Bernardi, Pietro Biondi, Marcella Granito