The Embalmer

An effectively macabre and fiendishly entertaining tale of lust, unrequited love and the fine art of taxidermy from the Italian director Matteo Garrone. Peppino Profeta (Ernesto Mahieux) is a very small, profoundly unattractive master taxidermist with a rabbity smile, a greasy comb-over and a wardrobe overflowing with flashy polyester blends. It's rumored around the run-down Italian coastal town where he plies his trade that Peppino works for the mob, and its true that he's occasionally called upon by a certain Don Pasqualino (Bernardino Terracciano) to put his skills to a less conventional use, namely extracting baggies of smuggled drugs from the body cavities of hu...