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The Skin I Live In - Antonio Banderas 2011
La piel que habito - Antonio Banderas 2011

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1280 x 352 **** /x.264/ac3/ 7.7/10 / 1 win & 4 nominations / writing on the wall: I breathe. I breathe. I breathe. I know I breathe.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1189073/
http://www.moviemeter.nl/film/73116

Antonio Banderas
Elena Anaya
Marisa Paredes

Spanje
Drama / Thriller

117 minuten

geregisseerd door Pedro Almodóvar
met Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya en Marisa Paredes

Sinds z'n vrouw stierf aan de gevolgen van brandwonden die ze opliep in een auto-ongeval, is de alom geprezen plastische chirurg Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) geobsedeerd door het aanmaken van een nieuw soort huid die z'n vrouw mogelijk had kunnen redden. Twaalf jaar later slaagt hij dankzij geavanceerde celtherapie erin deze huid in z'n lab te kweken. Om z'n doel te bereiken heeft hij er geen enkele moeite mee om ethische limieten te overschrijden door menselijke proefkonijnen te gebruiken. Maar dit is niet de enige misdaad die hij zal begaan...

The Skin I Live In - Antonio Banderas 2011

In honor of his late wife who died in a flaming car accident, scientist, Dr. Robert Ledgard, is trying to synthesize the perfect skin which can withstand burns, cuts or any other kind of damage. As he gets closer to perfecting this skin on his flawless patient, the scientific community starts growing skeptical and his past is revealed that shows how his patient is closely linked to tragic events he would like to forget.

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A tour de force, as Almodóvar plunges into new philosophical depths, - 12 September 2011


In his latest film Almodóvar takes a qualitative jump into new philosophical depths. His usual reflections on the nature of relationships and the consequence of one's actions take on a well- defined shape and advance forward with self-assurance.

The order in which the events of the story are told is a cunning device that allows the director to make us reflect on how superficially - indeed, skin-deep - we perceive reality and how quick we are to judge first impressions and jump to conclusions. What we first perceive one way, those initial scenes that slightly baffle us but which we nevertheless do not hesitate to judge in a specific way, take on a completely new meaning when the story pauses to take us back into the past in order to tell us about an important series of events that happened at the time which bear a direct relation to present events. The new light that is shed on the present changes completely our perception of the story as we had first witnessed it, which is a humbling experience. We are then taken back again to the present and continue watching the rest of the film, but with this completely new understanding of the real underlying motivations for the characters' actions. It is at this point that through a slight thriller-style twist in the plot the story takes on a Shakespearean dimension as it delivers its powerful humanist lesson that vengeance begets vengeance.

Food for thought, in fact enough food to last you days and feed other people, as you are left on the one hand wondering at the concept of skin: what we actually desire when we desire someone, whether all desire is skin-deep, whether the skin does not allow us to see the person behind. And on the other hand you are left with the reflection on how the road of vengeance leads only to self-destruction. When a film leaves you pondering so deeply, I can only conclude it is a great film.