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 ...

Garrone helmed his following two feature films, “Ospiti” (Guests) a movie about two Albanians who crash in his apartment for months and “Estate Romana” (Roman Summer), about a screenwriter who shares ...

"The Embalmer," from Italian writer-director Matteo Garrone, is a perverse tale of sexual obsession. Ernesto Mahieux is the film's charismatic star as a taxidermist named Peppino, whose small physical ...

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 ...

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 ...