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The Embalmer
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- Starring: Elisabetta Rocchetti, Ernesto Mahieux, Valerio Foglia Manzillo
- Summary: The story of a romantic triangle that develops when a middle-aged dwarf, who works as a zoo taxidermist, befriends a teenage boy only to have a younger woman enters the picture.
- Director: Matteo Garrone
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance
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Positive: 14 out of 16
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Mixed: 2 out of 16
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80From start to finish Garrone charges The Embalmer, a richly visual film, with an effective ambiguity and sense of foreboding.
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80Skillfully directed and adroitly acted.
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80Director Matteo Garrone's measured approach and soulfully humane focus combine to dignify the characters, allowing the tale of solitude, longing and sorrow to inch quietly under the viewer's skin.
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60Both the actor and the character deserve a better movie, one that might have channeled the latter's desires into more than just a few rote genre thrills.