Uberstrange is this independant film, but very well shot, well paced, and soundtracked by Amon Tobin. 3 stars but well worth checking out.
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The film is in three sections, with each protagonist being the father of the next. Each of the three men is in the grip of some kind of obsession.
We begin during World War II, with medical orderly Vendel Morosgovány (Csaba Csene). Vendel is a hapless figure fixated on sex. At the beginning of the film he shows us his particular party piece by ejaculating a long flame from his penis. He wants to shag everyone with two X chromosomes in sight. Unfortunately for him, that includes his commander’s wife. The resultant child – once a pig’s tail has been removed – grows up to be Kálmán Balatony (Gergely Trócsányi), who in the 1960s becomes a champion speed-eater. This middle section allows Pálfi to indulge in some cynical jabs at the Communist era of Hungary’s recent past. Finally, we’re in the present, with Lajos, Kálmán’s son. Shy and retiring, he works as a taxidermist, so skilled as to be able to stuff an embryo. He shops in a supermarket, buying vast quantities of food for his father (now played by Gábor Máté), who is now super-morbidly obese and confined to the house. But Lajos dreams of one final, ultimate artwork…
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watch the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7bqyh4u4xM
