La piel que habito (2011)
(The Skin I Live in)
Country: SP
Technical: col 117m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes
Synopsis:
A plastic surgeon keeps a young woman prisoner at his clinic and uses her in his experiments with genetically engineered skin.
Review:
The Spanish master (by now surely worthy of the title) achieves one of his cinephilic genre coups again with this glorious homage to Les yeux sans visage, and (who knows?) Doctor X. The star twists his screen persona brilliantly to play a Sergi Lopez type, and Anaya is superb as the brittle, impossible to play hybrid Vicente/Vera. It is a delicious tapestry of influences both from Almodóvar's own work and that of Hitchcock, Sirk and his other idols. Moreover, it dips deep into human suffering with its menagerie of tortured souls, dividing its philosophy equally between nurture and predestination.
(The Skin I Live in)
Country: SP
Technical: col 117m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes
Synopsis:
A plastic surgeon keeps a young woman prisoner at his clinic and uses her in his experiments with genetically engineered skin.
Review:
The Spanish master (by now surely worthy of the title) achieves one of his cinephilic genre coups again with this glorious homage to Les yeux sans visage, and (who knows?) Doctor X. The star twists his screen persona brilliantly to play a Sergi Lopez type, and Anaya is superb as the brittle, impossible to play hybrid Vicente/Vera. It is a delicious tapestry of influences both from Almodóvar's own work and that of Hitchcock, Sirk and his other idols. Moreover, it dips deep into human suffering with its menagerie of tortured souls, dividing its philosophy equally between nurture and predestination.
(The Skin I Live in)
Country: SP
Technical: col 117m
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes
Synopsis:
A plastic surgeon keeps a young woman prisoner at his clinic and uses her in his experiments with genetically engineered skin.
Review:
The Spanish master (by now surely worthy of the title) achieves one of his cinephilic genre coups again with this glorious homage to Les yeux sans visage, and (who knows?) Doctor X. The star twists his screen persona brilliantly to play a Sergi Lopez type, and Anaya is superb as the brittle, impossible to play hybrid Vicente/Vera. It is a delicious tapestry of influences both from Almodóvar's own work and that of Hitchcock, Sirk and his other idols. Moreover, it dips deep into human suffering with its menagerie of tortured souls, dividing its philosophy equally between nurture and predestination.