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Skin I Live In, The ( piel que habito, La ) (2011) Movie Information |
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Overall Rank: |
3219 |
Avg. Rating: |
2.68/4 |
# of Ratings: |
34 |
Genres: |
Drama |
Rating: |
R |
Language: |
Spanish |
Theater Date: | 10/14/2011 |
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Director: |
Pedro Almodóvar |
Actors: |
Antonio Banderas
Elena Anaya
Blanca Suárez
Marisa Paredes
Bárbara Lennie
Jan Cornet |
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Plot Outline:
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Based on the book Mygale by Thierry Jonquet - a plastic surgeon plots his revenge against the men responsible for raping his daughter. -- Chris Kavan
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MikePA 10/06/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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3/4 |
This is a sick one. Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In is a unique, oddly compelling movie. It's a revenge film that takes revenge to a different level. A strange level. Antonio Banderas and the rest of the cast all do fantastic jobs portraying each of their characters, and Almodovar serves them well with a good script and a stylistic direction. The film didn't quite grab me emotionally, but it was fun to watch a movie that dives deep into dark and twisted grounds. It's undeniably messed up, it's very dark, it occasionally gets under your skin (see what I did, there?), and it's for sure one of the better films of 2011. It's terrifically entertaining, and it's sticking with me.
3/4 |
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Snoogans 04/21/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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3/4 |
This film is hard to classify, as it has elements from different genres. The story is slightly bizarre and dark, but with an unsettling vibe that is borderline horror. However, it's presented as a drama, with emotional situations and some erotic behavior. This only makes it's twisted revelation all the more strange and shocking. The end result is a surprisingly good film. |
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nis 01/24/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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3/4 |
holy shit this is sick; also a bit inacurate. i mean no way that gorgeous woman could've once been a man. what about her voice, feminine legs or long neck? |
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01/09/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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what use is melodrama with no substance? |
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What is it about Pedro Almodovar's films? All of them full of melodrama, highly saturated colours, and a complex non-linear storyline that slowly unravels before the audiences shocked eyes. This should make to be a an interesting, unforgettable story that lingers. Right? Yeah I suppose, but although all the trademark Almodovar themes there (LGBT themes, gorgeous, gorgeous cast members, betrayal, jealously blood-ties) it ceases to be any more poignant that the rest of his films.
With the exception of the beautiful cinematography, and wonderful performance from Banderas who manages to capture both terrifying and magical, menacing and fragile this seems like a rehash of things that he has done before. Almodovar relies on his past efforts to create a good, a very good movie but one that f... |
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3/4 |
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10/14/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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The Skin I Live In |
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See full review on: http://cinemabecomesher.blogspot.com/2011/08/la-piel-que-habitothe-skin-i-live-in.html
The most interesting thing about Almodóvar's new film is how polarizing the reviews I read on IMDB are. It's his best film. His worst film. It's horror. It's definitely not horror. The only thing most people can agree on is the fluidity of the camerawork by Jose Luis Alcaine. In one scene, Marilia (Marisa Paredes) runs through the room at a sideways angle that confirms the urgency of the scene, in addition to being innovative and beautiful.
Perhaps this is Almodóvar's most unusual film. Oddly enough, the film takes place in the not so distant future (2012) and the not so far off past (six years ago). The comparisons to Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face are not unjustified. B... |
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3/4 |
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